Hackberry Creek Valley: Santonian, Kansas
collected by C. H. Sternberg 1905

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostega copei n. sp. Wieland 1909
1 individual
recombined as Microstega copei
YPM
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Trego
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 100.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° North, 66.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Santonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Santonian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 83.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Colorado Formation:Niobrara Member:Smoky Hill Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:C. H. Sternberg Collection dates:1905
Metadata
Database number:167919
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-04-07 16:38:34 Last modified:2023-08-02 08:00:34
Access level:the public Released:2015-04-07 16:38:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
54902. G. R. Wieland. 1909. Revision of the Protostegidae. The American Journal of Science, series 4 27(158):101-130 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]