Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

The skull of AMNH 1496 (top center) and AMNH 1497 (others) as figured in Hays (1908).

REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) TOXOCHELYIDAE ()

Mudge's Toxochelys
†Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1873

Conservation Status:
Extinct

Diagnosis:

Distribution:

(, Museum Voucher) (, Observation) (, Literature Record) (, iNat Record), ( Fossil)
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Occurrence Summary:
39
Records
39
Museum Vouchers
0
Other Observations

Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Ellis (1); Gove (14); Graham (1); Logan (8); Trego (2); Unknown (11); Wallace (2);

Natural History:

Remarks:

Bibliography:

1898	Wagner, George. On some turtle remains from the Ft. Pierre. The Kansas University Quarterly 7():201-203
1900	Williston, Samuel W. A new turtle from the Kansas Cretaceous. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 17():195-199 Porthochelys laticeps, gen. et sp. nov. from near the Saline River in Trego County, Kansas.
1902	Wieland, G. R. Notes on the Cretaceous turtles, Toxochelys and Archelon, with a classification of the marine Testudinata. American Journal of Science 14():95–108 Contains a figure (XX) of the forearm Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1872.
1908	Hay, Oliver P. Fossil Turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C.. 554+pp.
1946	Lane, Henry H. A survey of the fossil vertebrates of Kansas, Part III. The reptiles. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 49(3):289-332
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.
2007	Joyce, Walter G. Phylogenetic relationships of Mesozoic turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 48(1):3- 102 Includes a figure (14) depicting the forearm of Toxochelys latiremis Cope 1872 (from Kansas) redrawn from Wieland (1902).

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