Where: Kansas (38.9° N, 101.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 59.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Prof. B. F. Mudge
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. On some species of Pythonomorpha from the Cretaceous beds of Kansas and New Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11(81):574-584 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199538: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 29.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Liodon ictericus n. sp." = Platecarpus tympaniticus
"Liodon ictericus n. sp." = Platecarpus tympaniticus Cope 1869 mosasaur |