MsOk-1 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 60.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Demopolis Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

• Middle to outer neritic
• Clayey, very finely sandy, micaceous chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. D. Gentry, J. F. Parham, D. J. Ehret and J. A. Ebersole. 2018. A new species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the occurrence of the genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America. PLoS ONE 13:e0195651:1-24 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192775: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 19.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Peritresius ornatus
Peritresius ornatus Leidy 1856 turtle