McAllaster, Kansas

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Overview of the ghost town, October 2005. In the background there is the McAllaster Butte, where Elasmosaurus was first discovered in 1867 US-Kansas-McAllaster-Schoolhouse-panorama v1.png
Overview of the ghost town, October 2005. In the background there is the McAllaster Butte, where Elasmosaurus was first discovered in 1867

McAllaster is a ghost town in Logan County, Kansas, United States. [1]

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History

McAllaster was platted in 1887. [2]

The McAllaster post office was discontinued in 1953. [3]

One house is all that remains of this former community.

Paleontology

McAllaster is mainly known for its mound bearing its name, the McAllaster Butte, where the first known fossils of the famous plesiosaur Elasmosaurus were discovered in 1867. Other fossils possibly belonging to this latter have been discovered since, and the locality is dated to the Campanian stage of the Upper Cretaceous. [4] [5] [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Logan County". Blue Skyways. Kansas State Library. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ "McAllaster". Discover Oakley. Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ Everhart, M. J. (2005). "Elasmosaurid remains from the Pierre Shale (Upper Cretaceous) of western Kansas. Possible missing elements of the type specimen of Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope 1868?". PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology. 4 (3). ISSN   1567-2158.
  5. ↑ Carpenter, K. (2008). "Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of the Smoky Hill Chalk (Niobrara Formation) and the Sharon Springs Member (Pierre Shale)". In Harries, P. J. (ed.). High-resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology. Topics in Geobiology. Vol. 21. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 421–437. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9053-0_11. ISBN   978-1-4020-9053-0. S2CID   127932777.
  6. ↑ Everhart, M. J. (2017). "Captain Theophilus H. Turner and the Unlikely Discovery of Elasmosaurus platyurus". Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 120 (3–4): 233–246. doi:10.1660/062.120.0414. S2CID   89988230.

Further reading

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