Southeastern Gove County (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 66.7° W)

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When: Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. W. A. Mulder. 1999. Transatlantic latest Cretaceous mosasaurs (Reptilia, Lacertilia) from the Maastrichtian type area and New Jersey. Geologie en Mijnbouw 78:281-300 [M. Uhen/C. Shaffer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214534: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Coleman Shaffer on 05.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus sp. Marsh 1872 mosasaur