Where: Lincoln County County, Kansas (39.2° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 61.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• The geologic map of Berry (1952) depicts exposures of the Carlile Shale and lower horizons in this area. Uncrushed preservation (lack of compaction) suggest burial in a bioturbated chalky limestone unit, which tend to produce more three-dimensional specimens. Thus the specimen likely cocured in limestone beds of the Greenhorn Limestone or the Fairport Chalk, and is Middle Cenomanian to Middle Turonian in age" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005 p. 47).

Environment/lithology: marine; massive limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1921

Collection methods: quarrying

• KUVP collection

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 117814: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011

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