Cheney property, southeast Gove County (FHSM): Late/Upper Coniacian, Kansas
collected by Ewell 2005
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 individual | |||||||||
| FHSM VP-15824 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax sp.
Whitley 1939
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FHSM VP-16355, tooth | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Pseudoperna congesta
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| attached to 3 vertebrae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Gove |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 100.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.7° North, 66.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Coniacian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Coniacian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 89.80000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Colorado | Formation: | Niobrara | Member: | Smoky Hill Chalk |
| Local section: | Smoky Hill Chalk | Local bed: | 4 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 10 m higher than Niobrarasaurus coleii type site, 0.5 m above Hattin's (1982) marker unit 4; near top of Protosphyraena perniciosa biostratigraphic zone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | none |
| Encrustation: | occasional |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Ewell | Collection dates: | 2005 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 67200 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-11-13 11:36:34 | Last modified: | 2011-06-15 17:21:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-11-13 11:36:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19175. | ETE | M. J. Everhart and K. Ewell. 2006. Shark-bitten dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) caudal vertebrae from the Niobrara Chalk (upper Coniacian) of western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 109(1/2):27-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |