Santee: Campanian, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
Russell 1964
teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Knox
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 97.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.3° North, 65.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pierre Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Referral to the Pierre Shale is tentative.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:few
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:107400
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-07 06:38:27 Last modified:2011-04-06 16:38:27
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-07 06:38:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11982. J. Leidy. 1873. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories. In F. V. Hayden (ed.), Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1:1-358 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

35745ETE D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]