Also known as KUVP 441, Ogmodirus martini type locality
Where: Cloud County County, Kansas (39.5° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 62.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Greenhorn Limestone Formation (Colorado Group), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• "The remains are well preserved and uncrushed, suggesting preservation in non-laminated chalk or chalky limestone rather than shale or marl. This suggests the specimen is from the upper Greenhorn Limestone or lower Fairport Chalk, where non-laminated chalky limestone beds occur. Given that the Carlile Shale is not present in Cloud County, the specimen is likely from the upper Greenhorn Limestone" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 48).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; massive limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mr C. Boyce in 1909
Collection methods: quarrying
• KUVP 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 117817: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ogmodirus martini n. gen. n. sp." = Ogmodirus martinii
"Ogmodirus martini n. gen. n. sp." = Ogmodirus martinii Williston and Moodie 1917 elasmosaur KUVP 441 (juvenile postcranial skeleton)
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