Eochelone
Extinct genus of turtles
Eochelone Temporal range: Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Chelonioidea |
Family: | Cheloniidae |
Genus: | †Eochelone Dollo, 1903 |
Type species | |
†Eochelone brabantica | |
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Eochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the late Eocene. It was first named by Dollo in 1903. Its type species is E. brabantica.
References
- Professor Paul's Guide to Reptiles
- Eochelone in the Paleobiology Database
- Eigil Nielsen (1959). "Eocene turtles from Denmark" (PDF). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. 14 (2): 96–114.
- France de Lapparent de Broin; Xabier Murelaga; Adán Pérez-García; Francesc Farrés; Jacint Altimiras (2018). "The turtles from the upper Eocene, Osona County (Ebro Basin, Catalonia, Spain): new material and its faunistic and environmental context". Fossil Record. 21 (2): 237–284. doi:10.5194/fr-21-237-2018.
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Cheloniidae family
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Subclass: Anapsida
- Order: Testudines
- Suborder: Cryptodira
- Superfamily: Sea turtles
- Family: Cheloniidae
Species of the Cheloniidae family |
- †Eochelone brabantica
- †Eochelone voltregana
- †Glarichelys knorri
- Kemp's ridley sea turtle
- Olive ridley sea turtle
- †Lepidochelys waikatoica
- †Pacifichelys hutchisoni
- †Pacifichelys urbinai
- †Syllomus aegyptiacus
- †Syllomus crispatus
- †Tasbacka aldabergeni
- †Tasbacka danica
- †Tasbacka ouledabdounensis
- †Tasbacka ruhoffi
- †Tasbacka salisburgensis
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. †=Extinct.
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