FHSM VP-2295 locality, Ellis County: Late/Upper Coniacian, Kansas
collected by M.V. Walker 1968

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Tylosaurus kansasensis n. sp. Everhart 2005
1 specimen
FHSM VP-2295 - type (a complete, articulated skull with seven cervical vertebrae)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Ellis
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 99.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.9° North, 65.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Coniacian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Coniacian Other zone: Protosphyraena perniciosa
Age range of interval:89.30000 - 85.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Niobrara Member:Smoky Hill Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "The Smoky Hill Chalk in this area lies just a few meters above the contact with the underlying Fort Hays Limestone (Hattin, 1982), and is in Stewart's (1990) biostratigraphic zone of Protosphyraena perniciosa (Upper Coniacian)."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: chalk
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:few
Fragmentation:occasional
Feeding/predation traces:tooth marks
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:M.V. Walker Collection dates:1968
Metadata
Also known as:Tylosaurus kansasensis type locality
Database number:106063
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-03-02 08:20:04 Last modified:2016-03-10 16:32:06
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-02 08:20:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

38037. M. J. Everhart. 2005. Tylosaurus kansasensis, a new species of tylosaurine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas, USA. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):231-240 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

35382 M. J. Everhart. 2008. A bitten skull of Tylosaurus kansasensis (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and a review of mosasaur-on-mosasaur pathology in the fossil record. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 111(3/4):251-262 [M. Carrano/H. Street]