Also known as Pteranodon marshi holotype
Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.9° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 67.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• Between marker beds 15 and 19, upper Smoky Hill Chalk
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by Sternberg, Martin; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: G. F. Eaton. 1910. Osteology of Pteranodon. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 2:1-38 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93387: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pteranodon longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps1, "Pteranodon (Longicepia) marshi n. sp." = Pteranodon longiceps2
"Pteranodon (Longicepia) marshi n. sp." = Pteranodon longiceps2 Marsh 1876 pterosaur YPM 2594, skull
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