Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae

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 Prionochelys according to J. T. Thurmond and D. E. Jones 1981

Sister taxa: Prionochelys galeotergum, Prionochelys nauta

Type specimen: CNHM P27561, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Moore Brothers Farm, which is in a Santonian marine limestone in the Selma Formation of Alabama.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore