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Toxochelys elkader
Discussion
The specimen was found in the Niobrara beds, near Elkader, Logan County, Kansas, by Mr. H. T. Martin, of the University of Kansas.
Taxonomy
Toxochelys elkader was named by Hay (1908). Its type specimen is AMNH 6137, a partial skeleton (skull nearly complete; large portions, perhaps the whole, of the plastron; the shoulder-girdles; portions of the pelvis; and apparently one or two peripherals. ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is near Elkader, which is in a Santonian offshore chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1908 | Toxochelys elkader Hay p. 174 figs. 221-223 |
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†Toxochelys elkader Hay 1908
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Uetz 2005, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.80000 to 83.50000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian | USA (Kansas) | Toxochelys elkader (type locality: 203741) |