KANSAS

LINCOLN COUNTY

9 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN CENTER NEAR A BIG SPRING

UPPERMOST GREENHORN LIMESTONE OR LOWERMOST FAIRPORT CHALK

MIDDLE CENOMANIAN STAGE

UPPER MIDDLE GALLIC SUBEPOCH

LOWERMOST GULF EPOCH

MIDDLE CRETACEOUS-MIDDLE TURONIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH

LOWER GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

INFRAORDER: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA

EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001

Superfamily: CRYPTOCLEIDOIDEA Williston, 1925

TRICLEDIA O’KEEFE , 2001

Family: POLYCOTYLIDAE Cope, 1869

Trinacromerum bentonianum

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KANSAS

NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY

BURGER FARM

LATE EARLY OR EARLY MIDDLE TURONIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH

LOWER GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

INFRAORDER: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA

EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001

Superfamily: CRYPTOCLEIDOIDEA Williston, 1925

TRICLEDIA O’KEEFE , 2001

Family: POLYCOTYLIDAE Cope, 1869

Trinacromerum bentonianum