Where: Wilcox County, Alabama (32.2° N, 87.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 59.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Muldrow Member (Demopolis Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Upper Campanian, NP Zone CC22c
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1985
Primary reference: A. D. Gentry, J. A. Ebersole, and C. R. Kiernan. 2019. Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies. Royal Society Open Science 6:191950:1-12 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 207057: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 18.12.2019, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Asmodochelys parhami n. gen. n. sp.
Asmodochelys parhami n. gen. n. sp. Gentry et al. 2019 turtle MSC (McWane Science Center, Birmingham, AL) 35984. A single individual preserving the nuchal, four neurals, two epineurals, eight left peripherals, five right peripherals, a partial first suprapygal, two costals of the left side, two costals of the right side, approximately half of the left hyoplastron and one cervical vertebra
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| Coccolithophyceae | |
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Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis Vekshina 1959 | |