KJ2, Trego County Nyctosaurus (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Trego County, Kansas (39.1° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 66.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Volviceramus grandis inoceramid zone, Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.5 Ma)

• Lower part of the Smoky Hill Chalk

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by K. Jenkins

• Specimen owned by a private collector in Austin, Texas.

Primary reference: S. C. Bennett. 2003. New crested specimens of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Nyctosaurus. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 77(1):61-75 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93381: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Nyctosaurus sp. Marsh 1876 pterosaur
"KJ2", incomplete disarticulated skeleton including the skull