Also known as Pteranodon harpyia holotype
Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 70.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• Specimens probably collected between Marker Units 12 and 20 (Bennett 1991, 1994); upper part of member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cope in 1871; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1872. On two new ornithosaurians from Kansas. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12:420-422 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93225: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010