Condray Farm nodosaur (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Silvisaurus type

Where: Ottawa County, Kansas (39.2° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 57.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Terra Cotta Clay Member (Dakota Formation), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, fine-grained, concretionary, brown, gray, red sandstone

• "a warm-temperate forest like that of the southeastern Piedmont today...probably a coastal plain of low relief, in which aggrading streams deposited sediments from higher land to the west. The site is approximately 12 miles west of the present eastern margin of Cretaceous exposures."
• "The rock is a hard, fine-grained, cross-bedded sandstone, reddish, gray and brown, and has many concretions containing limonite."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Condray in 1955

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Collected by Warren Condray

Primary reference: T. H. Eaton, Jr. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions: Vertebrata 8:1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34726: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2003

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Taxonomic list

• plant genera are listed, but paper describes them as "oak, beech, sycamore and sassafras" (no genera named specifically).
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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Silvisaurus condrayi n. gen. n. sp.
Silvisaurus condrayi n. gen. n. sp. Eaton 1960 ankylosaur
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Fagus sp., Quercus sp.
Fagus sp. Linnaeus 1753 beech
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753 oak
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platanus sp.
Platanus sp. Linnaeus 1753 plane tree
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Sassafras sp.
Sassafras sp. Nees 1831 sassafras