Southern Gove County: Santonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Clidastes liodontus
Merriam 1894
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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] |