Reptiles from the Eocene Tallahatta Formation of Alabama

ABSTRACT

A small herpetofauna from the Point “A” Dam Site, early middle Eocene Age (Bridgerian, or the European Stage, Lutetian) of Covington County, Alabama, contains the remains of a trionychid turtle, an emydid turtle, a new genus and species of boid snake, a palaeopheid snake, a crocodilian, and an object that appears to represent the fossil remains of a charred pine knot used as a “stomach stone” by a crocodilian. The fauna appears to be one that could have lived in or near a tidal riverine habitat.