Near Ellsworth (KUVP 1318 locality): Middle Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 individual | |||||||||
| KUVP 1318 (90 gastroliths and a rib fragment) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Ellsworth County |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 98.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.2° North, 62.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Key time interval: | Middle Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "... we can deduce that this specimen is from the Greenhorn Limestone of Fairport Chalk" (Schumacher & Everhart 2005, p. 49). |
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: | 117818 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-09-27 02:44:05 | Last modified: | 2011-09-26 12:44:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-27 02:44:05 |
| 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] |