Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.9° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 66.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• Stratigraphic position within Smoky Hill Chalk is not specified, but fossils occur associated with Inoceramus platinus. From other publications, I. platinus occurs from marker unit 8 to marker unit 21, which correspond to the Santonian part of the Smoky Hill Chalk.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by George Sternberg
• Repository: Sternberg Memorial Museum
Primary reference: L. Hussakof. 1929. A new teleostean fish from the Niobrara of Kansas. American Museum Novitates 357:1-4 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221066: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Ethan Yu on 02.07.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Kansius sternbergi n. gen. n. sp.
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