Where: Gove County County, Kansas (38.9° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 67.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• "Yellow Chalk" (Williston 1906, p. 232)
•"Smoky Hill Chalk Member" (Storrs 1999, p. 5)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; yellow chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mr Charles Sternberg in 1895
Collection methods: quarrying
• KUVP collection
Primary reference: S. W. Williston. 1906. North American plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus. The American Journal of Science, series 4 21:221-236 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117843: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Elasmosaurus sternbergi n. sp.
Elasmosaurus sternbergi n. sp. Williston 1906 elasmosaur KUVP specimen (holotype, two dorsal vertebrae and some additional fragments)
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