Where: Jewell County, Kansas (39.9° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 62.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Hill Member (Carlile Shale Formation), Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• "thin (1-3 cm) fish-tooth conglomerate which lies 3-4 m below the top of the formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; shelly/skeletal conglomerate and shale

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Everhart, P. Everhart, E. Manning and D. Hattin. 2003. A middle Turonian marine fish fauna from the Blue Hill Shale Member, Carlile Shale, of north central Kansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):49A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 35365: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.12.2003

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