Also known as Styxosaurus snowii type locality
Where: Logan County County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 67.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Judge E. P. West, University of Kansas in 1890
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: S. W. Williston. 1890. A new plesiosaur from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 12:174-178 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116624: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 10.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Cimoliasaurus snowii n. gen. n. sp." = Styxosaurus snowii
"Cimoliasaurus snowii n. gen. n. sp." = Styxosaurus snowii Williston 1890 elasmosaur KUVP 1301 (holotype)
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