Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.9° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 67.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Probably came from above the Uintacrinus socialis zone. Upper Smoky Hill Member ('Smoky Hill Chalk') of the Niobrara Formation; probably above the Uintacrinus socialis Zone (possibly somewhere between Clioscaphites choteauensis to Desmoscaphites bassleri Zone; = Division G of Miller 1968), upper Santonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Melanie Bonner in 1967

• Repository: Fort Hays State Museum

Primary reference: H. W. Miller and M. V. Walker. 1968. Enchoteuthis melanae and Kansasteuthis lindneri, new genera and species of teuthids, and a sepiid from the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 71:176-183 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212962: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2020

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