12 miles south of Russell Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.7° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 67.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "probably collected between Marker Unit 15 nd 19"; upper part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1918

Primary reference: C. Wiman. 1920. Some reptiles from the Niobrara Group in Kansas. Bulletin of the Geological Institute of the University of Uppsala 18:9-18 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93391: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pteranodon longiceps Marsh 1876 pterosaur
UUPI R.197, disarticulated partial skeleton