Where: Cloud County, Kansas (39.5° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 60.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Hartland Shale Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• "the horizon is 10 feet below the Jetmore Chalk member in beds which, farther west of this area, have been classified as the Hartland Shale member, Greenhorn Limestone formation, Cretaceous series."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1936
Collection methods: salvage,
• discovered by road crew
Primary reference: E. S. Riggs. 1944. A new polycotylid plesiosaur. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 30(8):77-87 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 106182: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 04.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Trinacromerum willistoni n. sp." = Trinacromerum bentonianum
"Trinacromerum willistoni n. sp." = Trinacromerum bentonianum Cragin 1888 plesiosaur KUVP 1331 (skeleton with skull missing limbs)
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