Parachelys
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Parachelys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
Family: | †Eurysternidae |
Genus: | †Parachelys von Meyer, 1864 |
Type species | |
Parachelys eichstaettensis von Meyer, 1864
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Parachelys is a genus of Late Jurassic turtle from marine deposits in Bavaria, southern Germany.
The type species, P. eichstaettensis, is known only from the holotype NHMUK OR42888. It can be distinguished from other members of Eurysternidae by the characteristics of its fontanelles, anterolateral contact of vertebral I with marginal I only, and the manual phalangeal formula 2-2-3-3-3.[1]
References
- ^ Anquetin, J., Puntener, C., and Joyce, W.G., 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 (2):317-369.
- "Parachelys" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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