Also known as Pteranodon velox holotype
Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.9° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 67.7° 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 17 and 20 (Bennett 1994); upper part of member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Marsh in 26, 27, 1871; reposited in the YPM
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 93220: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pterodactylus ingens Marsh 1872 pterosaur YPM 1169 (syntype), partial wing phalanges and distal metacarpal III. YPM 1171 (syntype), distal metacarpal IV, proximal coracoid
Pterodactylus velox n. sp. Marsh 1872 pterosaur YPM 1176, distal end of metacarpal IV and proximal end of wing phalanx 1
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Actinopteri | |
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