near Elkader (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Nyctosaurus bonneri holotype

Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 67.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

• clearly lithified "chalk matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G. F. Sternberg

• specimens in the Sternberg Memorial Museum, Fort Hays Kansas State College

Primary reference: H. W. Miller. 1971. A skull of Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps Marsh associated with wing and body bones. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 74(1):20-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84697: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.11.2008, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
"Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps, "Pteranodon (Nyctosaurus) bonneri n. sp." = Nyctosaurus bonneri
"Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps Marsh 1876 pterosaur
Sternberg Memorial Museum 11402, partial skull and postcranial remains
"Pteranodon (Nyctosaurus) bonneri n. sp." = Nyctosaurus bonneri Miller 1971 pterosaur
Sternberg Memorial Museum 11311, skull and nearly complete postcranial skeleton