Devil's Backbone (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Howard County, Arkansas (33.8° N, 93.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 65.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Marlbrook Marl Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; marl
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 82004: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Prionochelys nauta n. gen. n. sp.
Prionochelys nauta n. gen. n. sp. Zangerl 1953 turtle |