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
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 | |
|