Niobrara deposits (Toxochelys brachyrhinus type locality) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Niobrarasaurus type

Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.7° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 67.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203738: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Toxochelys brachyrhinus n. sp." = Toxochelys latiremis
"Toxochelys brachyrhinus n. sp." = Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle
KU 1212, skull