near Plum Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
"Pteranodon longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps1, "Pteranodon (Longicepia) marshi n. sp." = Pteranodon longiceps2
"Pteranodon longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps1 Marsh 1876 pterosaur
AMNH 149, skull
"Pteranodon (Longicepia) marshi n. sp." = Pteranodon longiceps2 Marsh 1876 pterosaur
YPM 2594, skull