Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 66.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Protosphyraena pernicosa zone, Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• recovered as float between Marker Units 4 and 5

Environment/lithology: lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: M. J. Everhart. 2003. First records of plesiosaur remains in the lower Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Upper Coniacian) of the Niobrara Formation in western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 106(3-4):139-148 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99395: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.11.2010

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