Gully on Presley Farm, near Delight (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pike County, Arkansas (34.0° N, 93.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 65.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Brownstone Marl Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129834: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.06.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Chedighaii barberi n. gen. n. sp.
Chedighaii barberi n. gen. n. sp. Schmidt 1940 sideneck turtle
FMNH P26055, a nearly complete shell