Where: Lowndes County, Alabama (32.1° N, 86.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 60.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Gansserina gansseri foram zone, Ripley Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• from lower Ripley Formation, upper Campanian
•Ripley Formation is generally considered Maastrichtian age e.g. see Stringer et al. 2020 and Gifford et al. 2020
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and claystone
•massive, micaceous, glauconitic, fossiliferous fine sand; fossils primarily from phosphatic concretions
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: A. D. Gentry, J. F. Parham, D. J. Ehret and J. A. Ebersole. 2018. A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the occurrence of the genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America. PLoS ONE 13:e0195651:1-24 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192763: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 19.04.2018
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