Between Prescott and Delight: Early/Lower Santonian, Arkansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Platecarpus sp.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Museum of South Arkansas Collection, cranial fragments | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arkansas | County: | Nevada |
| Coordinates: | 33.9° North, 93.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 61.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Brownstown |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 107639 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. Street |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-04-12 05:29:20 | Last modified: | 2011-08-05 12:33:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-04-12 05:29:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 35745. | ETE | D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner] |