Catalpa Creek (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 88.4° W)

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When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, muddy, silty claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: J. M. Kaye. 1975. Giant Tortoises in the Late Pleistocene of Mississippi. The Hereptologists's League Journals 31(4):421 [M. Uhen/L. Harfoush]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 164397: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Lina Harfoush on 02.12.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
"Geochelone crassiscutata" = Hesperotestudo crassiscutata, Geochelone sp.
"Geochelone crassiscutata" = Hesperotestudo crassiscutata Leidy 1889 turtle
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle