MS.73.033 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Union County, Mississippi (34.6° N, 88.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 61.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ripley Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and claystone

• lower shore-face
• Thin indurated beds of fossiliferous sandstone, sandy calcareous clay, and

•massive, micaceous, glauconitic, fossiliferous fine sand; fossils primarily from phosphatic concretions

Size class: macrofossils

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 192766: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 19.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Peritresius ornatus
Peritresius ornatus Leidy 1856 turtle