Jurassichelon
Appearance
Jurassichelon Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
Genus: | †Jurassichelon Pérez García, 2015 |
Type species | |
Jurassichelon oleronensis |
Jurassichelon is an extinct genus of basal eucryptodiran turtle that inhabited France during the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It is known from a single species, J. oleronensis.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Pérez-García, Adán (8 May 2015). "New data on the poorly-known European Late Jurassic turtles "Thalassemys" and "Enaliochelys" and description of a new basal eucryptodiran taxon". Journal of Iberian Geology. 41 (1). doi:10.5209/rev_JIGE.2015.v41.n1.48652. ISSN 1886-7995. Retrieved 7 October 2024.