Southern Dallas County: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Peritresius ornatus
(Leidy 1856)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Dallas |
| Coordinates: | 32.2° North, 87.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.8° North, 59.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Demopolis Chalk |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | chalk |
| Lithology description: Clayey, very finely sandy, micaceous chalk | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Middle to outer neritic environment | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 192769 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-04-19 00:41:22 | Last modified: | 2021-02-25 08:47:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-04-19 00:41:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65441. | 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] |