Where: Gove County, Kansas (39.0° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 66.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Niobrara Formation (Colorado Group), Turonian to Turonian (93.9 - 83.6 Ma)
• formation assignment questionable
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Sternberg; reposited in the YPM
• Some of the fossils are stored in the Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Primary reference: G. R. Wieland. 1905. A new Niobrara Toxochelys. The American Journal of Science, series 4 20(119):325-343 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38721: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 01.05.2004, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Platecarpus sp. Cope 1869 mosasaur
Tylosaurus proriger mosasaur | |
"Toxochelys bauri n. sp." = Ctenochelys stenoporus
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