Locality E, Russell County (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Russell County, Kansas (39.0° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 61.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lincoln Limestone Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• From the basal Lincoln Limestone, from the basalmost 20 cm of the calcarenite beds and is considered to be of early Late Cenomanian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, acetic

• Repository: Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University (FHSM) and University of Kansas Natural History Museum (KUVP)

Primary reference: K. Shimada and D. J. Martin. 2008. Fossil fishes from the basal Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous, Late Cenomanian) in Russell County, Kansas . Fort Hays Studies, Special Issue 2:89-103 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 213418: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Haimirichiidae
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Carcharias tenuiplicatus" = Eostriatolamia tenuiplicatus, "Carcharias saskatchewanensis" = Microcarcharias saskatchewanensis
"Carcharias tenuiplicatus" = Eostriatolamia tenuiplicatus Cappetta and Case 1975 sand tiger shark
"Carcharias saskatchewanensis" = Microcarcharias saskatchewanensis Case et al. 1990 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax curvatus Williston 1900 crow shark
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark
"Squalicorax volgensis" = Palaeoanacorax volgensis Glickman 1971 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus occidentalis Leidy 1868 elasmobranch
Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz 1838 elasmobranch
Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857
 Aspidorhynchiformes - Aspidorhynchidae
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Albulidae indet. Bleeker 1859 bonefish
 Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870
 Tselfatiiformes - Plethodidae
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
cf. Pachyrhizodus sp. Agassiz 1850
Pachyrhizodus minimus Stewart 1899
 Amiiformes - Caturidae
Caturidae indet. Owen 1860 bowfin