Where: Ottawa County County, Kansas (39.3° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 62.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Mammites nodosoides or Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• "Upper Greenhorn Limestone or lower Fairport Chalk Member. If this assessment is correct then the specimen is Middle Turonian in age" (Schumacher & Evrhart 2005).
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•Mammites nodosoides or Colligniceras woollgari ammonite zones according to Schumacher (2011), so Early-Middle Turonian
Environment/lithology: marine; massive limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by John Potts in 1884; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: B. A. Schumacher and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A stratigraphic and taxonomic review of plesiosaurs from the old "Fort Benton Group" of central Kansas: a new assessment of old records. Paludicola 5(2):33-54 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117803: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 26.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Brachauchenius lucasi n. gen. n. sp.
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