| 词条 | Smoky Hill Chalk |
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| name = Smoky Hill Chalk | image = Toxochelys.jpg | caption = This fossil of Toxochelys, 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. | type = Geological formation | prilithology = Chalk | otherlithology = | namedfor = Smoky Hills, Kansas | namedby = | region = mid-continental | country = {{USA}} | coordinates = | unitof = | subunits = | thickness = | extent = | area = | age = Late Coniacian-Early Campanian | period = Santonian }} 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.[1] The Smoky Hill Chalk Member is the uppermost of the two structural units of the Niobrara Chalk.[1] It is underlain by the Fort Hays Limestone Member; and the Pierre Shale overlies the Smoky Hill Chalk.[1] 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.[2] References1. ^1 2 {{cite book | editor-last = Bottjer | editor-first = David J. | editor2-last = Etter | editor2-first = Walter | editor3-last = Hagadorn | editor3-first = James W. |display-editors = 3 | editor4-last = Tang | editor4-first = Carol M. | title = Exceptional Fossil Preservation: A unique View on the Evolution of Marine Life | year = 2002 | publisher = Columbia University Press | isbn = 0-231-10255-0}} 2. ^{{cite book | last = Schwimmer | first = David R. | title = King of the Crocodylians: The Paleobiology of Deinosuchus | year = 2002 | publisher = Indiana University Press | isbn = 0-253-34087-X}} External links
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