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

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