Porthochelys type locality (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Saline River

Where: Trego County, Kansas (39.1° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 66.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Cretaceous" (no other information given at all, but all sediments in this area are Late Cretaceous)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. H. Sellards, J. T. Shearer in 1900

Primary reference: S. W. Williston. 1901. A new turtle from the Kansas Cretaceous. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science 17:195-199 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90468: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Porthochelys laticeps n. gen. n. sp.
Porthochelys laticeps n. gen. n. sp. Williston 1901 sea turtle