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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pterodactylus ingens Marsh 1872 pterosaur YPM 1172 (syntype), distal right metacarpal IV, two limb-bone fragments
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