Where: Mobile County, Alabama (30.7° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 86.4° W)
When: Ecor Rouge Sand Formation, Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• described as coming from the informal unit “Ecor Rouge Sand” (beneath the Citronelle Formation)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: S. E. Jasinski. 2013. Review of the fossil Trionychidae (Testudines) from Alabama, including the oldest record of trionychid turtles from eastern North America. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History 31(2):46-59 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176945: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 09.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Apalone cf. spinifera LeSueur 1827 spiny softshell turtle |