Between North and Middle forks Alkali Creek, SW Edgemont: Campanian, South Dakota
collected by B. Brown

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Platecarpus ictericus (Cope 1870)
1 specimen
synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
AMNH 5811
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Fall River
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 104.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.4° North, 71.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pierre Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower Pierre
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Abundance in sediment:rare
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:B. Brown
Metadata
Database number:109761
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:G. Lloyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-05-26 05:47:37 Last modified:2013-10-16 06:23:38
Access level:the public Released:2011-05-26 05:47:37
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]