Also known as McAllister Butte
Where: Logan County, Kansas (39.0° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.7° N, 71.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites sp. (weakly ribbed) - Baculites perplexus ammonoid zone, Sharon Springs Member (Pierre Shale Formation), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• The Sharon Springs Member spans the Bacculites sp (weakly ribbed) - Bacculites perplexus Zones in Kansas (Gill et al. 1972)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gypsiferous lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Theophilis H. Turner in c. 1868; reposited in the ANSP
• ANSP collection (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia)
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1868. On a new large enaliosaur. The American Journal of Science, series 2 46(137):263-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77321: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Elasmosaurus platyurus n. gen. n. sp.
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Actinopteri | |
Enchodus sp., "Sphyraena carinata n. sp." = Enchodus carinatus
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
"Sphyraena carinata n. sp." = Enchodus carinatus Cope 1869 |