Ada-3 site (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Near “Robert Wilson property”

Where: Dallas County, Alabama (32.4° N, 87.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 59.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mooreville Chalk Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; muddy chalk

• 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 197316: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 02.11.2018, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Ichthyornithes -
Ichthyornis dispar Marsh 1872 bird
ALMNH:Paleo:1310, 1311, 1677, 1786; MSC 5937
Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Prionochelys matutina Zangerl 1953 turtle
MSC 38604, MSC 3140