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 | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle |