Where: Trego County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• "From the lowermost beds of the upper Niobrara"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M.R. Watson
• Repository: University of Kansas Museum
Primary reference: W. N. Logan. 1897. Some new cirriped crustaceans from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. The Kansas University Quarterly 6:187-189 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 210349: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Squama lata n. sp.
Squama lata n. sp. Logan 1897 barnacle |