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 | |
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis
"Carcharias amonensis" = Haimirichia amonensis Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark | |
"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 | |
Squalicorax curvatus Williston 1900 crow shark
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark
"Squalicorax volgensis" = Palaeoanacorax volgensis Glickman 1971 crow shark | |
Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish | |
Ptychodus occidentalis Leidy 1868 elasmobranch
Ptychodus decurrens Agassiz 1838 elasmobranch | |
Actinopteri | |
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857 | |
Aspidorhynchidae indet. Bleeker 1859 | |
Albulidae indet. Bleeker 1859 bonefish | |
Xiphactinus audax Leidy 1870 | |
? Plethodidae indet. Loomis 1900 | |
cf. Pachyrhizodus sp. Agassiz 1850
Pachyrhizodus minimus Stewart 1899 | |
Caturidae indet. Owen 1860 bowfin |