Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.7° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 66.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian to Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Orville Bonner in 1981
Primary reference: A. Bell and M. J. Everhart. 2009. A New Specimen of Parahesperornis (Aves: Hesperornithiformes) from the Smoky Hill Chalk (Early Campanian) of Western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 112:7-14 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 132511: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.08.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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