south side, Butte Creek: Santonian, Kansas
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1917
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Tylosaurus proriger
(Cope 1869)
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1 individual | |||||||||
| USNM 8898, partial skeleton | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Logan |
| Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 101.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.2° 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: | 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 | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | chalk |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
| Collectors: | C. H. Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1917 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Russell Springs | ||
| Database number: | 191649 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-02-06 16:51:05 | Last modified: | 2023-08-02 08:03:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-02-06 16:51:05 |
| 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] |