Sumter County turtle locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Sumter County, Alabama (32.7° N, 88.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 66.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Prairie Bluff Chalk Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

• Middle to outer neritic
• Firm sandy, fossiliferous, brittle chalk

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 192771: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 19.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Peritresius ornatus Leidy 1856 turtle