Southern Gove County: Santonian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Clidastes liodontus Merriam 1894
1 specimen
FHSM VP-13909
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Gove
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 100.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.9° North, 67.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Niobrara Member:Smoky Hill Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Deposited 87-82 Ma
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lithified chalk
Lithology description: composed of "compacted skeletal remains (coccoliths) of planktonic, golden-brown algae (Chrysophyceae)"; deposited 200 miles from the eastern and 600 miles from the western shoreline of the Western Interior Seaway; deposited in water depths of 150 and 300 m
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Glacial or sequence phase:regressive
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:99383
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-11-09 11:13:08 Last modified:2011-06-15 17:26:16
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-09 11:13:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34156. M. J. Everhart. 2001. Revisions to the biostratigraphy of the Moasasauridae (Squamata) in the Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobara Chalk (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 104(1-2):59-78 [M. Carrano/H. Street]