Smoky Hill River fork (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Kansas (38.8° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 62.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Niobrara Formation (Colorado Group), Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(4):145-277 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81970: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle