northeastern Lane County (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lane County, Kansas (38.7° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 66.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Middle Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• just about Hattin's (1982) Marker Unit 8, which is 80 m above contact with Fort Hays Limestone Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hamm in 2001

Collection methods: surface (float),

• "other marine vertebrates" also collected

Primary reference: M. J. Everhart and S. A. Hamm. 2005. A new nodosaur specimen (Dinosauria: Nodosauridae) from the Smoky Hill Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 108(1/2):15-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49045: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Niobrarasaurus coleii Mehl 1936 ankylosaur
FHSM VP-13985
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
cf. Cretoxyrhina mantelli Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
identified as potential maker of tooth marks