PBDB Collection

Moore Brothers Farm (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Dallas County, Alabama (32.4° N, 87.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 58.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Selma Group, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1948. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part I. Introduction. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(1):1-16 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81927: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines - Pancheloniidae	Prionochelys matutina n. sp.⁴, Ctenochelys tenuitesta n. gen. n. sp.⁴, Ctenochelys acris n. sp.⁴ Prionochelys matutina n. sp.⁴ Zangerl 1953 turtle Ctenochelys tenuitesta n. gen. n. sp.⁴ turtle Ctenochelys acris n. sp.⁴ Zangerl 1953 turtle
Testudines - Protostegidae	Chelosphargis cf. advena², "Protostega dixie n. sp." = Protostega gigas³ Chelosphargis cf. advena² Hay 1908 sea turtle "Protostega dixie n. sp." = Protostega gigas³ Cope 1871 sea turtle
Testudines - Toxochelyidae	Lophochelys venatrix n. sp.⁴ Lophochelys venatrix n. sp.⁴ Zangerl 1953 sea turtle
Testudines -	Toxochelys moorevillensis n. sp.⁴ Toxochelys moorevillensis n. sp.⁴ Zangerl 1953 turtle
Squamata - Mosasauridae	Tylosaurus zangerli¹ Tylosaurus zangerli¹ Russell 1970 mosasaur

¹Russell 1970; ²Thurmond and Jones 1981; ³Zangerl 1953; ⁴Zangerl 1953