0.5 mi south of Solomon River: Late/Upper Coniacian - Middle Santonian, Kansas
collected by B. F. Mudge

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Liodon nepaeolicus n. sp. Cope 1874
1 individual
recombined as Tylosaurus nepaeolicus
AMNH 1565
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Osborne
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 97.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 63.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Coniacian - Middle Santonian
Age range of interval:89.80000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Niobrara Member:Smoky Hill Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:B. F. Mudge
Metadata
Database number:189448
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-10-19 13:17:00 Last modified:2017-10-19 13:17:00
Access level:the public Released:2017-10-19 13:17:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
63646. E. D. Cope. 1874. Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period found west of the Mississippi River. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, First Series 2:3-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]