FHSM VP-13962
Plesiosauria (de Blainville, 1835)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
Phylum
ChordataSpecies
Class
ReptiliaAuthor
de BlainvilleOrder
PlesiosauriaYear
1835Family
Collected by
Everhart, M.J.;Everhart, P.A.Date Collected
1998-12-26Identified By
Campbell, J.Date Identified
2016-03-07Type
Number of Pieces
1Description
Limb; Humerus, (1) proximal end humerusLocality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
EllisRemarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality informationGroup
ColoradoFormation
NiobraraMember
Smoky HillZone
Bed
Local Fauna
Chronostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Earliest Period
CretaceousLatest Period
CretaceousLowest Zone
Highest Zone
Publications (3 of 3)
Everhart, M.J., 2003. First records of plesiosaur remains in the lower Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Upper Coniacian) of the Niobrara Formation in western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 106:139-148
Everhart, M.J., 2004. New data regarding the skull of Dolichorhynchops osborni (Plesiosauroidea: Polycotylidae) from rediscovered photos of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology specimen.. Paludicola, 4:74-80
Everhart, M.J., 2004. Plesiosaurs as the food of mosasaurs; new data on the stomach contents of a Tylosaurus prorigor (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Formation of western Kansas. The Mosasaur, 7:41-46