FHSM VP-13919
Plesiosauria (de Blainville, 1835)
Taxonomy
Specimen Info
Kingdom
AnimaliaGenus
Phylum
ChordataSpecies
Class
ReptiliaAuthor
de BlainvilleOrder
PlesiosauriaYear
1835Family
Collected by
Everhart, M.J.Date Collected
1995-06-17Identified By
Everhart, M.J.Date Identified
1995-06-17Type
Number of Pieces
13Description
Other; Gastrolith, (13)Locality
Lithostratigraphy
Country
United States of AmericaState/Province
KansasCounty
GoveRemarks
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 4)
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
Everhart, M.J., 2005. Probable plesiosaur gastroliths from the basal Kiowa Shale (Early Cretaceous) of Kiowa County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 108:109-115
Everhart, M.J., 2006. The occurrence of Elasmosaurids (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) in Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas. Paludicola, 5:170-183