Bilby's Ranch, Beaver Creek: Late/Upper Santonian, Kansas
collected by L. Sternberg
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Clidastes sternbergi n. sp.
Wiman 1920
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Eonatator sternbergii | ||||||||||
| UPI R 163 - type (a nearly complete skeleton) and USNM 3777 (incomplete skeleton) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Logan |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 100.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.1° North, 67.5° 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: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Colorado | Formation: | Niobrara | Member: | Smoky Hill Chalk |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | chalk |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | L. Sternberg |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Eonatator sternbergii type locality | ||
| Database number: | 109698 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | H. Street |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-05-21 04:36:08 | Last modified: | 2023-08-02 07:53:57 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-05-21 04:36:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 36230. | ETE | D. A. Russell. 1967. Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23:1-252 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 46104 | N. Bardet and X. Pereda Suberbiola. 2001. The basal mosasaurid Halisaurus sternbergii from the Late Cretaceous of Kansas (North America): a review of the Uppsala type specimen. Comptes Rendus Academie du Science Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des planetes 332:395-402 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant] | |
| 38016 | N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Iarochene, B. Bouya, and M. Amaghaz. 2005. A new species of Halisaurus from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, and the phylogenetical relationships of the Halisaurinae (Squamata: Mosasauridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143:447-472 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |