Bouliachelys
Bouliachelys Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Chelonioidea |
Clade: | Dermochelyoidae |
Genus: | †Bouliachelys |
Bouliachelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from Cretaceous Australia. Its parent taxon is the clade Dermochelyoidae.[1]
References[]
- ^ Bardet, N.; Jalil, N. E.; De Lapparent De Broin, F.; Germain, D.; Lambert, O.; Amaghzaz, M. (2013). Viriot, Laurent (ed.). "A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a Suction Feeding Apparatus Unique among Tetrapods". PLOS ONE. 8 (7): e63586. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...863586B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063586. PMC 3708935. PMID 23874378. figure 7
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Categories:
- Early Cretaceous turtles
- Turtle genera
- Chelonioidea
- Early Cretaceous reptiles of Australia
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Extinct turtles
- Monotypic prehistoric reptile genera
- Prehistoric turtle stubs