Where: Ellis County County, Kansas (38.7° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 64.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• "The concretion containing the specimen... Chalky limestone concretions such as this commonly occur in the uppermost Pfeifer Member, Greenhorn Limestone (Hattin, 1975) and the lower Fairport Chalk Member, Carlile Shale (Hattin, 1962)" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 46).
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 117809: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Trinacromerum bentonianum Cragin 1888 plesiosaur FHSM VP-2936 (articulated dorsal vertebrae and ribs)
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