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Pteranodon Marsh, 1876
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Pteranodon Marsh, 1876
- State province: Kansas
- Scientific name authorship: Marsh, 1876
- Phylum: Chordata
- Order: Pterosauria
- Member: Smoky Hill Chalk Member
- Latest period or highest system: Cretaceous
- Latest era or highest erathem: Mesozoic
- Latest epoch or Highest series: Late Cretaceous
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Latest age or Highest age: Campanian
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identified by: Dr S C. Bennett; Fort Hays State University; Bennett
- Identification Qualifier: Bennett, S. C. 2001 page 141, table 11. Incorrectly says 2045 in table 11. Should be 2945.
- Higher geography: North America; United States of America; Kansas; Logan County
- Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Pterosauria; Pteranodontidae
- Group: Colorado Group
- Genus: Pteranodon
- Formation: Niobrara Formation
- Family: Pteranodontidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Cretaceous
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Mesozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Late Cretaceous
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Earliest age or Lowestst age: Coniacian
- Country: United States of America
- Continent: North America
- Class: Reptilia
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