West Greene, East: Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
collected by R. A. Hard 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Corsochelys haliniches n. gen., n. sp. Zangerl 1960
corrected as Corsochelys halinches
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Alabama County:Greene
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 88.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 60.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Selma Formation:Mooreville Chalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH
Collectors:R. A. Hard Collection dates:March 1950
Metadata
Database number:82035
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-07-21 07:40:22 Last modified:2019-09-19 21:45:17
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-21 07:40:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
788. R. Zangerl. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part V. An advanced cheloniid sea turtle. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(5):279-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]