3 miles southwest of Castle Rock: Santonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Toxochelys latiremis
Cope 1873
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Selmasaurus johnsoni n. sp.
Polcyn and Everhart 2008
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Polcyn and Everhart 2008 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Gove |
Coordinates: | 38.8° North, 100.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.0° North, 66.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | ||
Key time interval: | Santonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Lithology description: none given | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: no details given |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: specimen found in ROM collection |
Metadata
Database number: | 25071 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-08-27 13:51:42 | Last modified: | 2023-08-02 07:48:26 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-08-27 13:51:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
692. | E. L. Nicholls. 1988. New material of Toxochelys latiremis Cope, and a revision of the genus Toxochelys (Testudines, Chelonioidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(2):181-187 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
28466 | M. J. Polcyn and M. J. Everhart. 2008. Description and phylogenetic analysis of a new species of Selmasaurus (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) from the Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas. Proceedings of the second Mosasaur Meeting 13-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |