Praha-Bila Hora Quarries (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.1° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 13.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bila-Hora Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic marl

• Sandy or silty marlstones and spongolite marlstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. P. Kear, B. Ekrt, J. Prokop and G. L. Georgalis. 2014. Turonian marine amniotes from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic. Geological Magazine 151(1):183-198 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 180999: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 13.08.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet.
Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
cf. Pliosauridae indet.
cf. Pliosauridae indet. Seeley 1874 plesiosaur
 Plesiosauria -
cf. Polyptychodon sp.
cf. Polyptychodon sp. Owen 1841 plesiosaur
 Testudines -
Chelonioidea indet., Dermochelyoidea indet., Chelone regularis n. sp.
Chelonioidea indet. Baur 1893 sea turtle
Chelone regularis n. sp. Fritsch 1905 turtle
NMP Ob00002, NMP Ob-00050 (holotype), part and counterpart impressions of a femur