Also known as Thompson's Creek, Snow

Where: Ellsworth County, Kansas (38.6° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 60.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dakota Formation, Late/Upper Albian to Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by E. P. West in 1885

Collection methods: core, salvage, surface (in situ),

• discovered by E. P. West in August, 1885 and reported to F. H. Snow; from waste pile of a well

Primary reference: F. H. Snow. 1887. On the discovery of a fossil bird-track in the Dakota Sandstone. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 10:3-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49037: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2005

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