Where: Ellis County, Kansas (39.0° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 64.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Collignoniceras woollgari ammonoid zone, Fairport Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• 12.2 m above the Fencepost limestone bed, 1 m below marker unit 7 (Hattin 1962), middle of the Fairport Chalk Member, Carlile Shale (Fig. 2). This stratigraphic interval corresponds to the middle of the Collignoniceras woollgari ammonite zone (Hattin 1962, 1975; Kauffman et al. 1993).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 10, 2010

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• On April 10, 2010, following the 142nd meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, an articulated series of seven mosasaur caudal vertebrae (FHSM VP-17564) was discovered within a small exposure of Fairport Chalk, Carlile Shale in northeastern Ellis County, Kansas.

•FHSM – Fort Hays State University, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, Kansas

Primary reference: B. A. Schumacher. 2011. A ‘woollgari-zone mosasaur’ (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Carlile Shale (Lower Middle Turonian) of central Kansas and the stratigraphic overlap of early mosasaurs and pliosaurid plesiosaurs. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114(1-2):1-14 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150368: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 07.09.2013

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