Also known as Platecarpus type

Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 59.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Spillman

Collection methods: mechanical,

• collected by Dr. William Spillman

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. On the reptilian orders Pythonomorpha and Streptosauria. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:251-266 [M. Carrano/H. Street] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98972: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 25.10.2010