Also known as KU-GOV-42

Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.7° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 67.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clioscaphites choteauensis ammonoid zone, Niobrara Formation (Colorado Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1976, 1977; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: mechanical, acetic

• University of Kansas Museum of Natural History collection

•"a large number" of fishes were collected by "examining the interiors of Inoceramus shells"

•material was "cleaned with pins and washed gently in 5% acetic acid"

Primary reference: E. O. Wiley and J. D. Stewart. 1981. Urenchelys abditus, new species, the first undoubted eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes) from the Cretaceous of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):43-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94652: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.03.2010

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