Where: Ellis County, Kansas (39.1° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 64.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Hill Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Most fossil localities of the stratigraphic member are either covered largely by soil or exposed at low angles without exhibiting any useful stratigraphic markers, and fossils are commonly collected from a relatively flat ground surface. This situation makes the identification of exact fossil-bearing horizons difficult.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University (FHSM)

Primary reference: K. Shimada. 2006. Marine vertebrates from the Blue Hill Shale Member of the Carlile Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Middle Turonian) in Kansas. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:165-175 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 150369: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 07.09.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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