Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.7° N, 88.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 60.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mooreville Chalk Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; muddy chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: McWane Science Center (MSC) in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Primary reference: A. D. Gentry. 2018. Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles. PeerJ 6:e5876:1-34 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197311: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.11.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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