10 miles northwest of Wakeeney (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Trego County, Kansas (39.1° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 66.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• "Cretaceous" (age based on age of other Smoky Hill collections)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; chalk

• "rather light buff Smoky Hill chalk"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1956

• presumably in the Sternberg Memorial Museum

Primary reference: G. F. Sternberg and M. V. Walker. 1958. Observation of articulated limb bones of a recently discovered Pteranodon in the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 61(1):81-85 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84698: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.11.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
? Pteranodon sp. Marsh 1876 pterosaur
mostly complete skeleton missing skull