Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) PROTOSTEGIDAE ()

†Protostega advena

Conservation Status:
Extinct

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Distribution:

(, Museum Voucher) (, Observation) (, Literature Record) (, iNat Record), ( Fossil)
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Bibliography:

1896	Williston, Samuel W. Brachysaurus, a new genus of mosasaurs. The Kansas University Quarterly 6(2):96 Description of Brachysaurus overtoni (now Prognathodon overtoni, Russell, 1967 [Russell D. A. (1967) Systematics and morphology of American mosasaurs (Reptilia, Sauria), Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 23, 1-252]).
1985	Schultze, Hans-Peter, L. Hunt, J. Chorn, and A. M. Neuner. Type and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in the collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Part II. Fossil amphibians and reptiles. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications (77):1-66 Also check on several listed names not in KHA as KS taxa.
2009	Hawley, Marlin F. The gilded age "Bone Wars" and the birth of paleoindian archaeology: Williston, Martin, Overton, and the 12 Mile Creek site. North American Archaeologist 30(2):105-140 Prognathodon overtoni

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