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Smoky Hill Chalk

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Smoky Hill Chalk
Stratigraphic range: Late Coniacian-Early Campanian
This fossil of Prionochelys, an extinct marine turtle, is held in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Many Smoky Hill Chalk vertebrate fossils have found their ways to natural history museums all over the world.
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofNiobrara Formation
Lithology
PrimaryIn Kansas, chalky and marly limestones, chalk, and chalky shale; elsewhere, less chalky
Location
Coordinates38°48′09″N 100°56′33″W / 38.80250°N 100.94250°W / 38.80250; -100.94250
Regionmid-continental
Country United States
Type section
Named forSmoky Hill River
Named byF.W. Cragin[1]
Year defined1896[1]

The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil rich geological formation, known primarily for its exceptionally well-preserved marine reptiles.[2] Named for the Smoky Hill River,[1] the Smoky Hill Chalk Member is the uppermost of the two structural units of the Niobrara Chalk.[2] It is underlain by the Fort Hays Limestone Member and overlain by the Pierre Shale.[2] The Smoky Hill Chalk outcrops in parts of northwest Kansas, its most famous localities for fossils, and in southeastern Nebraska. Large well-known fossils excavated from the Smoky Hill Chalk include marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, large bony fish such as Xiphactinus, mosasaurs, flying reptiles or pterosaurs (namely Pteranodon), flightless marine birds such as Hesperornis, and turtles. Many of the most well-known specimens of the marine reptiles were collected by dinosaur hunter Charles H. Sternberg and his son George. The son collected a unique fossil of the giant bony fish Xiphactinus audax with the skeleton of another bony fish, Gillicus arcuatus inside the larger one. Another excellent skeleton of Xiphactinus audax was collected by Edward Drinker Cope during the late nineteenth century heyday of American paleontology and its Bone Wars.[3]

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The general type area, the Smoky Hill River watershed in Logan and Gove Counties, has many badlands eroded into the Smoky Hill Chalk.

Some natural monuments of Smoky Hill Chalk in Kansas with public daylight access

References

  1. ^ a b c "Geologic Unit: Smoky Hill". Geolex - National Geologic Map Database. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. ^ a b c Bottjer, David J.; Etter, Walter; Hagadorn, James W.; et al., eds. (2002). Exceptional Fossil Preservation: A unique View on the Evolution of Marine Life. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10255-0.
  3. ^ Schwimmer, David R. (2002). King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34087-X.

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