Dinochelys
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Dinochelys Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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Shell of D. whitei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
Genus: | †Dinochelys Gaffney, 1979 |
Species: | †D. whitei
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Binomial name | |
†Dinochelys whitei Gaffney, 1979
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Dinochelys (from a reference to the Dinosaur National Monument Visitor Center and Greek chelys, turtle) is an extinct genus of paracryptodiran turtle from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation.[1]
See also
References
- ^ Brinkman, Donald B.; Stadtman, Ken; Smith, David (2000). "New material of Dinochelys whitei Gaffney, 1979, from the Dry Mesa Quarry (Morrison Formation, Jurassic) of Colorado". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (2): 269–274. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0269:NMODWG]2.0.CO;2.
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