[Illustration: PLATE 1. _Chrysemys limnodytes._ Univ. Kans. Mus. Nat. Hist., Vert. Paleo. Coll. No. 7676. Fig. A, dorsal view of carapace; fig. B, ventral view of plastron. Both views approximately x .4.] In the summer of 1946 a party from the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History visited exposures of the Laverne formation in Beaver County, Oklahoma, at the invitation of Dr. Stuart Schoff of the United States Geological Survey. When examining the marl beds an Emydid turtle was discovered which appears to be an unnamed species of the genus _Chrysemys_. A description of the new species follows.…
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