Condray Farm nodosaur: Late/Upper Albian, Kansas
collected by W. Condray 1955
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Proteales
- Platanaceae
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Platanus sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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Angiospermae
- Laurales
- Lauraceae
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Sassafras sp.
Nees 1831
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Angiospermae
- Fagales
- Fagaceae
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Fagus sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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Quercus sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Silvisaurus condrayi n. gen., n. sp.
Eaton 1960
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Ottawa |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 97.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.3° North, 57.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 427 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dakota | Member: | Terra Cotta Clay |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",fine,concretionary,brown,gray,red lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "The rock is a hard, fine-grained, cross-bedded sandstone, reddish, gray and brown, and has many concretions containing limonite." | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Geology comments: "a warm-temperate forest like that of the southeastern Piedmont today...probably a coastal plain of low relief, in which aggrading streams deposited sediments from higher land to the west. The site is approximately 12 miles west of the present eastern margin of Cretaceous exposures." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera | ||
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | W. Condray | Collection dates: | 1955 |
| Collection method comments: Collected by Warren Condray | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:plant genera are listed, but paper describes them as "oak, beech, sycamore and sassafras" (no genera named specifically). | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Silvisaurus type | ||
| Database number: | 34726 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-09-17 14:15:31 | Last modified: | 2022-03-16 05:46:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-17 14:15:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9210. | T. H. Eaton, Jr. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions: Vertebrata 8:1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 7836 | K. Carpenter and J. I. Kirkland. 1998. Review of Lower and middle Cretaceous ankylosaurs from North America. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland & J. W. Estep (eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:249-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 13083 | ETE | G. A. Liggett. 2005. A review of the dinosaurs from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 108(1/2):1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |