near Castle Rock (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Pteranodon eatoni holotype

Where: Trego County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 66.4° 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)

• From between Marker Units 4 to 6 of the lower Smoky Hill Chalk

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. W. Guild in 1875; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: H. W. Miller. 1971. The taxonomy of the Pteranodon species from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 74(1):1-19 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93384: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
"Pteranodon (Occidentalia) eatoni n. sp." = Pteranodon sternbergi
"Pteranodon (Occidentalia) eatoni n. sp." = Pteranodon sternbergi Harksen 1966 pterosaur
YPM 1179, skull