Toxochelys moorevillensis Zangerl 1953 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Full reference: R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(4):145-277

Belongs to Toxochelys according to E. L. Nicholls 1988

See also Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Zangerl 1953

Sister taxa: Toxochelys elkader, Toxochelys latiremis, Toxochelys procax

Type specimen: CNHM P27330, a shell (nearly complete carapace and plastron, girdle elements, and vertebral fragments). Its type locality is Moore Brothers Farm, which is in a Santonian/Campanian carbonate limestone in Alabama.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of United States (11: Alabama collections)

Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence

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