Also known as Platecarpus type
Where: Lowndes County, Mississippi (33.5° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 59.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tombigbee Sand Member (Eutaw Formation), Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Spillman
Collection methods: mechanical,
• collected by Dr. William Spillman
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1866. [The specimen of a large phalanx of an extinct reptile]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1866:9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98972: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 25.10.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Platecarpus tympaniticus n. gen. n. sp.2
Platecarpus tympaniticus n. gen. n. sp.2 Cope 1869 mosasaur Holotype - ANSP 8484, 8487-88, 8491, 8558-59, 8562, all from one individual, includes a partial left surangular, right quadrate, partial right pterygoid, anterior dorsal vertebra, two cervical vertebrae, and partial basioccipital-basisphenoid complex. ANSP 8491, the partial right pterygoid, is currently missing.
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"Platecarpus tuberosus n. sp." = Neptunochelys tuberosa1
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| Actinopteri | |
Hadrodus priscus n. gen. n. sp.3
Hadrodus priscus n. gen. n. sp.3 Leidy 1857 | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
Eumylodus laqueatus n. gen. n. sp.3
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