FHSM VP-78 locality, Gove County (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Tylosaurus kansasensis referred specimen

Where: Gove County, Kansas (39.0° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 66.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. F. Sternberg in 1938

Primary reference: M. J. Everhart. 2005. Tylosaurus kansasensis, a new species of tylosaurine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas, USA. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):231-240 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118153: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 06.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus kansasensis Everhart 2005 mosasaur
FHSM VP-78 (a nearly complete skull and four vertebrae). Originally identified as Platecarpus by Sternberg and reidentified by Russell (1967) as Tylosaurus nepaeolicus