Widow Cox Farm (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Arkansas (34.1° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 64.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marlbrook Marl Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "Gulf Series"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. M. Barber in 1938; reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. P. Schmidt. 1944. Two new thalassemyd turtles from the Cretaceous of Arkansas. Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 8(11):63-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81996: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Prionochelys nauta Zangerl 1953 turtle
 Testudines -
"Phyllemys barberi n. gen. n. sp." = Toxochelys latiremis
"Phyllemys barberi n. gen. n. sp." = Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873 turtle
FM P27047