Where: Logan County County, Kansas (39.0° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 69.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 72.1 Ma)
• Santonian Niobrara Chalk or Campanian Pierre Shale
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Joseph Savage of Leavenworth in >1872
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
Primary reference: G. W. Storrs. 1999. An examination of Plesiosauria (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Central North America. Paleontological Contributions of the University of Kansas 11:1-15 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 118877: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 17.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plesiosaurus gulo n. sp.
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