Where: Gove County, Kansas (38.8° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 66.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Niobrara Formation (Colorado Group), Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• single specimen
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: specimen found in ROM collection
Primary reference: E. L. Nicholls. 1988. New material of Toxochelys latiremis Cope, and a revision of the genus Toxochelys (Testudines, Chelonioidea). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8(2):181-187 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 25071: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.08.2002, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle | |
Selmasaurus johnsoni n. sp.
Selmasaurus johnsoni n. sp. Polcyn and Everhart 2008 mosasaur |