Where: Lincoln County County, Kansas (39.2° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 63.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pfeifer Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• "The block containing the specimen is undoubtedly from the Fencepost limestone bed, Greenhorn Formation" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 46). This bed is within the Pfeifer Member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; 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 117811: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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