Species: lowii WILLISTON, 1894
Etymology:

Holotype: KUVP 1200

Locality: Near Fairbury, Jefferson County, Nebraska.

Horizon: Pfeifer Shale or Jetmore Chalk Member, Greenhorn Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Turonian Stage, Upper Gallic Subepoch, Lower Gulf Epoch, Early Late Cretaceous.

Material: Skull and lower jaw, 3 cervical, the sacral, and some caudal vertebrae, the pectoral girdle, the humerus, radius, some metacarpal bones, most of the pelvic bones and an incomplete femur, some fragments of the carapace and some of the plastron.

Referred material:

FMNM-PR385:

 

Locality: Overburden on top of Dakota Rose Granite Quarry, SW 1/4, Sec. 18, T. 120N., R 47W, Grant County, South Dakota.

Horizon: Benton Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Turonian Stage, Upper Gallic Formation, Lower Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Skull, fragmentary shell and fragmentary skeleton.

HOOK, 1998

MNA V4515, V4514:

 

ALBRIGHT III, GILLETTE, & TITUS, 2013

Locality: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Horizon: Tropic Shale.

Biostatigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MNA V9446: Partial skeleton, including cervical and caudal vertebrae, ilium, ischium, right femur, left and right tibia, fibula, paddle elements inclucing ungual phalanges, costal ribs, and large parts of the carapce and plasteron

 

HANKS & SHIMADA, 2002

Locality: Rose Quarry, Grant County, northeastern South Dakota.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Cretaceous.

Material:

Number: Not given:

IRBY, ELLIOTT & HUTCHINSON, 1994

Locality: MNA Locality 262, Blue Point, Black Mesa Area, near Oraibi, Navajo and Hopi Tribal Land, Navajo County, Northeastern Arizona.

Horizon: 12 m above the base of the Mancos Shale.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Turonian Stage, Upper Gallic Formation, Lower Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

MNA V4516: Skull, lower jaw, many elements of the carapace and plastron, and limb girdles.

 

= ?Desmatochelys lowei NICHOLLS & MECKERT, 2002
= Desmatochelys cf. lowi NICHOLLS, 1992

Locality: South bank of the Puntledge River, 3.5 km west of Courtenay, 49°41’00”N, 125°03’24’W, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Province, Canada.

Horizon: Haslam Formation, 129 m above the base of the underlying Comox Formation.
Note: Orginally Browns Member, Trent River Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Santonian Stage, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

CDM 003: Left humerus, incomplete mandible, right coracoid, right ilium, glenoid region of scapula, one ungual phalanx, four peripherals and one unidentified element, possibly a hyoid.

 

= Desmatochelys cf. D. lowi SATO, KONISHI, HIRAYAMA & CALDWELL, 2012

Locality: Near Kakanosawa, Pankemoyuuparo River, Yubara City, Hokkaido Island, Japan.

Horizon: Saku Formation, Middle Yezo Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Turonian Stage, Upper Gallic Formation, Lower Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

THU g262: Skull, cervicals, forelimb and girdle, and partial shell.

 

SCHWIMMER, STEWART & WILLIAMS, 1996

Locality: Ellis County, Kansas.

Horizon: Carlile Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Turonian Stage, Upper Gallic Formation, Lower Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

KUVP 32405: Humerus.
Note: 3 parallel accurate cuts one showing serration from a shark.

KUVP 32405: Humerus.
Note: Numerous cut marks, 3 showing serrations from a shark.