Also known as Pteranodon harpyia holotype

Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 67.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• Specimens probably collected between Marker Units 12 and 20 (Bennett 1991, 1994); upper part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cope in 1871; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1872. On two new ornithosaurians from Kansas. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12:420-422 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93225: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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