Smoky Hill River (YPM 1190): Late/Upper Coniacian - Santonian, Kansas
collected by O. C. Marsh 1871
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Hadrosaurus agilis n. sp.
Marsh 1872
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1 individual | |||||||||
| recombined as Claosaurus agilis | ||||||||||
| YPM 1190 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Logan |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 101.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 41.9° North, 67.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 874 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||
| *International age/stage: | Campanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Coniacian - Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 89.80000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Colorado | Formation: | Niobrara | Member: | Smoky Hill Chalk |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | blue "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "blue Cretaceous shale" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
| Collectors: | O. C. Marsh | Collection dates: | 1871 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | L&W locality 45 | ||
| Database number: | 28369 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-10 18:15:53 | Last modified: | 2023-08-23 10:43:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-10 18:15:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7805. | O. C. Marsh. 1872. Notice of a new species of Hadrosaurus. American Journal of Science and Arts 3:301 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 85707 | B. H. Breithaupt. 1999. The first discoveries of dinosaurs in the American west. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:59-65 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 13083 | ETE | G. A. Liggett. 2005. A review of the dinosaurs from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 108(1/2):1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 7806 | O. C. Marsh. 1890. Additional characters of the Ceratopsidae, with notice of new Cretaceous dinosaurs. American Journal of Science 39:418-426 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 51966 | M. G. Mehl. 1936. Hierosaurus coleii: a new aquatic dinosaur from the Niobrara Cretaceous of Kansas. Journal of the Scientific Laboratories, Denison University 31:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 52607 | S. W. Williston. 1898. Dinosaurs. The University Geological Survey of Kansas 4:67-70 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |