Also known as Nyctosaurus bonneri holotype

Where: Logan County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 70.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Smoky Hill Chalk Member (Niobrara Formation), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G. F. Sternberg

• specimens in the Sternberg Memorial Museum, Fort Hays Kansas State College

Primary reference: H. W. Miller. 1971. A skull of Pteranodon (Longicepia) longiceps Marsh associated with wing and body bones. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 74(1):20-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84697: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.11.2008, edited by Richard Butler

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