Also known as Pteranodon marshi holotype

Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.9° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 69.8° 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)

• Between marker beds 15 and 19, upper Smoky Hill Chalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; yellow chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Sternberg, Martin; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: G. F. Eaton. 1910. Osteology of Pteranodon. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 2:1-38 [R. Butler/R. Butler] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93387: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.01.2010