Goblin Hollow: Late/Upper Santonian, Kansas
collected 1871
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Hesperornithiformes
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Hesperornis regalis n. gen., n. sp.
Marsh 1872
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1 individual | |||||||||
YPM 1200 - holotype; referred specimen: YPM 1206 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Pteranodon sp.
Marsh 1876
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Everhart 2011 | |||||||||
YPM 1169 (wing bone) | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax kaupi
(Agassiz 1843)
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Everhart 2011 | |||||||||
YPM 56409 (tooth embedded in Pteranodon specimen) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Logan |
Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 101.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 42.3° North, 67.7° 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: | Late/Upper Santonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Colorado | Formation: | Niobrara | Member: | Smoky Hill Chalk |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: age assignment based on ages of other Smoky Hill collections |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray calcareous "shale" |
Lithology description: "gray calcareous shale" (Coues 1903) | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | YPM | Collection dates: | July, 1871 |
Metadata
Also known as: | South bank, Smoky Hill River (east of Wallace); Hesperornis regalis type | ||
Database number: | 85284 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-12-09 17:08:16 | Last modified: | 2012-12-17 09:22:43 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-12-09 17:08:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34551. | ETE | O. C. Marsh. 1872. Preliminary description of Hesperornis regalis, with notices of four other new species of Cretaceous birds. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 3(13-18):360-365 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
43998 | M. J. Everhart. 2011. Rediscovery of the Hesperornis regalis Marsh 1871 holotype locality indicates an earlier stratigraphic occurrence. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114(1-2):59-68 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
23556 | ETE | O. C. Marsh. 1893. A new Cretaceous bird allied to Hesperornis. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 45(265):81-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |