Garrett Ranch, 7-8 miles northwest of Wakeeney: Santonian, Kansas
collected by G. F. Sternberg 1953

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Ectenosaurus clidastoides (Merriam 1894)
FHSM VP-401 (complete skull and articulated anterior half of a skeleton. Associated with the skeletal and cartilaginous remains are 23 small slabs preserving fossilized integument)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Trego
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 100.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.2° North, 66.4° 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: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,soft parts
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collectors:G. F. Sternberg Collection dates:1953
Collection method comments: Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Metadata
Also known as:FHSM
Database number:123577
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-01-26 02:00:43 Last modified:2012-01-25 09:02:16
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-26 02:00:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

39759. J. Lindgren, M. J. Everhart, and M. W. Caldwell. 2011. Three-dimensionally preserved integument reveals hydrodynamic adaptations in the extinct marine lizard Ectenosaurus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae). PLoS One 6(11):e27343 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]