Where: Republic County, Kansas (39.7° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 62.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jetmore Chalk Member (Greenhorn Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• A chalky shale portion of the Jetmore Chalk, specifically between Hattin’s (1975) Marker Units JT-9 and JT-10.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), chemical, acetic

• Repository: Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University (FHSM)

Primary reference: F. Guzzo and K. Shimada. 2018. A new fossil vertebrate locality of the Jetmore Chalk Member of the Upper Cretaceous Greenhorn Limestone in north-central Kansas, U.S.A. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 121:59-68 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 213385: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.08.2020

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