AGr-37: Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Prionochelys matutina Zangerl 1953
MSC 3500
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Greene
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 88.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 60.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: muddy chalk
Lithology description: Compact fossiliferous clayey chalk and chalky marl
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Inner to middle neritic environments below the wave base
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: McWane Science Center (MSC) in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Metadata
Database number:197309
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2018-11-02 12:49:17 Last modified:2021-02-26 04:39:23
Access level:the public Released:2018-11-02 12:49:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

67279. A. D. Gentry. 2018. Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles. PeerJ 6:e5876:1-34 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]