Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.5° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.7° N, 71.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Niobrara Formation (Colorado Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• "From top of Niobrara very near Pierre contact."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. H. Colbert; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 107708: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 14.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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