Where: Russell County County, Kansas (38.9° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 63.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pfeifer Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• About 2 km below the Fencepost Limestone bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dr Paul Johnston, DeWayne Backus, and students in 1971
Collection methods: quarrying
• ESU, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
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 117806: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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