Site AGr-43 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Choctaw Bluff

Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.8° N, 87.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 59.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• specimens at University of Alabama Museum

Primary reference: S. E. Jasinski. 2013. Review of the fossil Trionychidae (Testudines) from Alabama, including the oldest record of trionychid turtles from eastern North America. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(2):46-59 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176940: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 09.03.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle