AGr-17 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Greene County, Alabama (32.8° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 60.1° 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

• Inner to middle neritic environments below the wave base
• Compact fossiliferous clayey chalk and chalky marl

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 197312: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.11.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Prionochelys matutina Zangerl 1953 turtle
MSC 6086
Aves
 Ichthyornithes -
Ichthyornis dispar Marsh 1872 bird
MSC 5794, 5916, 6200-6202