Also known as Hierosaurus type
Where: Trego County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 66.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• from between Hattin's beds 1-4; bed 2 used as approximate for section
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. H. Sternberg in 1905-1908; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• possibly two combined specimens from different localities; see Liggett (2005) for details
Primary reference: C. H. Sternberg. 1909. An armored dinosaur from the Kansas Chalk. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 22:257-259 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34700: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hierosaurus sternbergii n. gen. n. sp.
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