Salt Creek, 4 miles north of Gorham (FHSM VP-1316 locality): Early/Lower Turonian - Middle Turonian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Polycotylidae
Trinacromerum bentonianum Cragin 1888
1 individual
KUVP 1316 (cervical centrum)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Russell County
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 99.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.6° North, 64.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian - Middle Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Exposures in this area are of the uppermost Greenhorn Limestone and lowermost Fairport Chalk" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 47).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: KUVP collection
Metadata
Database number:117812
Authorizer:R. Benson Enterer:R. Benson
Modifier:R. Benson Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-09-27 01:52:00 Last modified:2011-09-26 11:52:37
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-27 01:52:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
37870. B. A. Schumacher and M. J. Everhart. 2005. A stratigraphic and taxonomic review of plesiosaurs from the old "Fort Benton Group" of central Kansas: a new assessment of old records. Paludicola 5(2):33-54 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Butler]