Where: Lane County, Kansas (38.7° N, 100.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 67.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2007; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. Dutel, J. G. Maisey, D. R. Schwimmer, P. Janvier, M. Herbin and G. Clément. 2012. The giant Cretaceous coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart & Williams, 1994, and Its bearing on Latimerioidei interrelationships. PLoS ONE 7(11):e49911:1-27 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206749: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.11.2019

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