Where: Osborne County County, Kansas (39.5° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 63.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairport Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• The specimen shows signs of crushing due to burial in shaly chalk, while nearly all of the Fort Hays Limestone is massive, bioturbated chalk, which generally preserved more three-dimensional specimens. Thus, the specimen is probably from the Carlisle Shale, and the carbonate matrix suggests it comes from the Fairport Chalk Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by O. G. Guttery

Collection methods: quarrying

• FHSM collection

Primary reference: B. A. Schumacher and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A stratigraphic and taxonomic review of plesiosaurs from the old "Fort Benton Group" of central Kansas: a new assessment of old records. Paludicola 5(2):33-54 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117801: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 26.09.2011

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