Also known as Niobrarasaurus type

Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.7° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 66.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• low in formation, below Hattin's Marker Unit 3. 195 ft above bae of the member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Virgil Cole in 1930-1935

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Cole collected most of the material in 1930, followed by a second collection from the same specimen in 1935

Primary reference: M. G. Mehl. 1931. Aquatic dinosaur from the Niobrara of western Kansas. Geological Society America Bulletin 42(1):326-327 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49040: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2005

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