Goblin Hollow: Late/Upper Santonian, Kansas
collected 1871

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Hesperornithiformes
Hesperornis regalis n. gen., n. sp. Marsh 1872
1 individual
YPM 1200 - holotype; referred specimen: YPM 1206
Reptilia
Pteranodon sp. Marsh 1876
Everhart 2011
YPM 1169 (wing bone)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax kaupi (Agassiz 1843)
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]
23556ETE 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]