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)
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