north side, Smoky Hill River, 3 mi W Russell Springs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.9° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 67.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow shale

• "Yellow shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. Harger in 31, 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 93221: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Pterodactylus ingens Marsh 1872 pterosaur
YPM 1172 (syntype), distal right metacarpal IV, two limb-bone fragments