Near Dorsey Sandpit (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as North of Sitka

Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.3° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 60.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kiowa Shale Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• "Upper Albian... specific collecting horizon within the formation is uncertain"

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• "marine"
• none given, but stratigraphic unit is a "shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. V. Walker in 1963

• FHSM collection

Primary reference: K. Shimada. 1996. Ichthyosaur (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) vertebra from the Kiowa Shale (Lower Cretaceous: Upper Albian), Clark County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 99(1/2):39-44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 90327: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
cf. Platypterygius sp.
cf. Platypterygius sp. von Huene 1922 ichthyosaur