Also known as "Huckberry", Nyctosaurus gracilis holotype

Where: Trego County, Kansas (38.9° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 66.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• upper part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. A. Brous in April, 1876; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1876. Notice of a new sub-order of Pterosauria. American Journal of Science 11:507-509 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93389: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.01.2010

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