Also known as Eonatator sternbergii type locality
Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 67.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. Sternberg
Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109698: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 21.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Clidastes sternbergi n. sp." = Eonatator sternbergii
"Clidastes sternbergi n. sp." = Eonatator sternbergii Wiman 1920 mosasaur UPI R 163 - type (a nearly complete skeleton) and USNM 3777 (incomplete skeleton)
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