Where: Ellis County, Kansas (39.1° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 63.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairport Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

• "At this locality the Fairport is overlain by the Blue Hill Shale."; "It was situated about 6 m (20 ft) below the Blue Hill Shale-Fairport Chalk contact."; "The Fairport Chalk has generally been regarded as the lowest member of the Carlile Formation, but some workers (Hattin, 1962, p. 125) have concluded that the Fairport Chalk fulfills the qualifications for formational status."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: coprolite

Collected by J. D. Stewart in 1975

Primary reference: L. D. Martin and J. D. Stewart. 1977. The oldest (Turonian) mosasaurs from Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 51(5):973-975 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 102879: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 20.01.2011

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