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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Porthochelys laticeps n. gen. n. sp.
Porthochelys laticeps n. gen. n. sp. Williston 1901 sea turtle |