Where: Rooks County, Kansas (39.5° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 42.5° N, 65.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Middle Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• from somewhere between Hattin's beds 8-10; 9 listed as average for section plotting
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Stewart in 1973
Primary reference: K. Carpenter, D. W. Dilkes, and D. B. Weishampel. 1995. The dinosaurs of the Niobrara Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Kansas). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(2):275-297 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 49044: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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