Also known as USNM 1195 elasmosaur locality
Where: Ellsworth County County, Kansas (38.6° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 61.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lincoln Limestone Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1931
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: M. J. Everhart. 2007. Use of archival photographs to rediscover the locality of the Holyrood elasmosaur (Ellsworth County, Kansas). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110(1-2):135-143 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106008: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 01.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Reptilia | |
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur UNSM 50135 (identical specimen as USNM 1195 by Schumacher & Everhart 2005)
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