Where: Ellis County County, Kansas (38.7° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 61.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Graneros Shale Formation (Colorado Group), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• "A display placard with FHSM VP-15576 states that it was found by J. C. Harksen, 3 miles east of Pfeifer in the Graneros Shale" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 48).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gypsiferous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. C. Harksen, O. Bonner in 1962

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• FHSM collection; Found by J. C. Harksen, collected by Orville Bonner

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 117816: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011

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