Where: South Dakota (43.3° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 49.1° N, 71.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown in 1903; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1905. A revision of the species of the family of fossil turtles called Toxochelyidae, with descriptions of two new species of Toxochelys and a new species of Porthochelys. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21(10):177-185 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 203739: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 23.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Porthochelys browni n. sp." = Toxochelys latiremis
"Porthochelys browni n. sp." = Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle AMNH 6080, an almost complete skull
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