Burkville locality (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, Alabama (32.3° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 58.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Mooreville Chalk Formation (Selma Group), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81935: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Calcarichelys gemma n. gen. n. sp.
Calcarichelys gemma n. gen. n. sp. Zangerl 1953 sea turtle
 Testudines -
Toxochelys moorevillensis2 Zangerl 1953 turtle