FHSM VP-13325
Ptychodus (Agassiz, 1837)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
PtychodusPhylum
ChordataSpecies
Class
ChondrichthyesAuthor
AgassizOrder
Year
1837Family
PtychodontidaeCollected by
Shimada, K.;Armstrong, A.Date Collected
1995-06/09Identified By
Shimada, K.Date Identified
1995-08-15Type
Number of Pieces
1Description
Skull; Isolated Teeth, (1), in coproliteLocality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
EllisRemarks
Information withheld. Please contact FHSM for detailed locality informationGroup
ColoradoFormation
CarlileMember
Blue HillZone
Bed
Local Fauna
Chronostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Earliest Period
CretaceousLatest Period
CretaceousLowest Zone
Highest Zone
Publications (3 of 3)
Everhart, M.J., Darnell, M.K.. 2004. Occurrence of Ptychodus mammilaris (Elasmobranchii) in the Fairport Chalk Member of the Carlile Shale (Upper Cretaceous) of Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science , 107:126-130
Shimada, K., . 1997d. Shark-tooth-bearing coprolite from the Carlile Shale (Upper Cretaceous), Ellis County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 100:133-138
Everhart, M.J., 2007. Remains of a pycnodont fish (Actinopterygii: Pycnodontiformes) in a coprolite; an uppermost record of Micropycnodon kansasensis in the Smoky Hill Chalk, western Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 110:35-43