Also known as Pteranodon longiceps holotype
Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 67.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• from between 2 m above Marker Unit 15 and Marker Unit 16; upper part of member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Williston in 1876; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1876. Notice of a new sub-order of Pterosauria. American Journal of Science 11:507-509 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93234: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pteranodon longiceps n. gen. n. sp.
Pteranodon longiceps n. gen. n. sp. Marsh 1876 pterosaur YPM 1177, skull and atlas-axis, postcranial fragments
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