Smoky Hill breaks: Turonian - Santonian, Kansas
collected by C. Sternberg 1904

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Prionochelys galeotergum n. sp. Zangerl 1953
Zangerl 1953
synonym of Prionochelys matutina
Zangerl states the fossil is from Cove County, Kansas, with no more precise information, collected by Sternberg
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Platecarpus ictericus (Cope 1870)
synonym of Platecarpus tympaniticus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Gove
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 100.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 66.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Turonian - Santonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Niobrara
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: age based on range from Kansas outcrops of the Niobrara
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
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
Collectors:C. Sternberg Collection dates:1904
Collection method comments: The fossil is stored in the Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Metadata
Database number:38720
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:S. Kuemmell, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-05-01 02:38:08 Last modified:2011-08-05 12:46:31
Access level:the public Released:2004-05-01 02:38:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10412.5% 10340D. Thies and J. Vespermann. 1995. Die Mosasaurier des Roemer-Museums in Hildesheim. (The Mosasauridae of the Roemer Museum in Hildesheim). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 69(3/4):459-465 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

787 R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(4):145-277 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Mannion]