Also known as Pteranodon occidentalis/oweni, Pterandon ingens holotypes
Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.9° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 67.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• Specimen probably collected between Marker Units 18 and 20 (Bennett 1991, 1994); upper part of member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Marsh in 1870, 1871; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1872. Discovery of additional remains of Pterosauria, with descriptions of two new species. American Journal of Science, Series 3 3:241-248 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93217: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010, edited by Franco Villegas-Garin
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
Pterodactylus ingens n. sp., Pterodactylus oweni n. sp.
Pterodactylus ingens n. sp. Marsh 1872 pterosaur YPM 1170 (lectotype), distal ends of radius and ulna, proximal and distal ends of metacarpal IV, shaft and distal end of wing phalanx 1 and fragments
Pterodactylus oweni n. sp. Marsh 1871 pterosaur YPM 1160 (lectotype), right metacarpal IV, broken proximal end of wing phalanx 1, distal end of wing phalanx 2, and fragments
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| Aves | |
Iaceornis marshi n. sp.
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