Road-cut south of Lake Wilson Reservoir: Early/Lower Turonian, Kansas
collected by Dr Paul Johnston, DeWayne Backus, and students 1971

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Trinacromerum bentonianum Cragin 1888
1 individual
ESU 5000 (Emporia State University, Kansas; limb)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Russell County
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 98.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 63.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:93.50000 - 89.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Greenhorn Limestone Member:Pfeifer
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: About 2 km below the Fencepost Limestone bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Dr Paul Johnston, DeWayne Backus, and students Collection dates:July 1971
Collection method comments: ESU, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
Metadata
Database number:117806
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-09-27 00:36:28 Last modified:2012-01-31 16:35:03
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-27 00:36:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37870. B. A. Schumacher and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A stratigraphic and taxonomic review of plesiosaurs from the old "Fort Benton Group" of central Kansas: a new assessment of old records. Paludicola 5(2):33-54 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Butler]