Also known as Pteranodon sternbergi holotype

Where: Graham County, Kansas (39.4° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 65.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Approximately Marker Bed 4 of the lower Smoky Hill Chalk

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sternberg in 1952

• FHKM: Fort Hays Kansas State College Natural History Museum

Primary reference: J. C. Harksen. 1966. Pteranodon sternbergi, a new fossil pterodactyl from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 45:74-77 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93383: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.01.2010

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