Also known as Nyctosaurus bonneri holotype
Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 67.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by G. F. Sternberg
• specimens in the Sternberg Memorial Museum, Fort Hays Kansas State College
Primary reference: H. W. Miller. 1971. A skull of Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps Marsh associated with wing and body bones. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 74(1):20-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84697: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.11.2008, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pteranodon (Nyctosaurus) bonneri n. sp." = Nyctosaurus bonneri, "Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps
"Pteranodon (Nyctosaurus) bonneri n. sp." = Nyctosaurus bonneri Miller 1971 pterosaur Sternberg Memorial Museum 11311, skull and nearly complete postcranial skeleton
"Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps" = Pteranodon longiceps Marsh 1876 pterosaur Sternberg Memorial Museum 11402, partial skull and postcranial remains
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