Chelydrops
Chelydrops Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Chelydridae |
Genus: | †Chelydrops Peters, 1868 |
Species: | †C. stricta
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Binomial name | |
†Chelydrops stricta (Matthew, 1924)
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Chelydrops is an extinct genus of Chelydridae from Miocene of North America. Only one species is described, Chelydrops stricta (Matthew, 1924).
The genus was considered by Hutchison (2008) to be a junior synonym of the genus Macrochelys, containing the alligator snapping turtle; Hutchison transferred the species C. stricta to the genus Macrochelys.[1]
References[]
- ^ J. Howard Hutchison (2008). "History of fossil Chelydridae". In A.C. Styermark; M.S. Finkler; R.J. Brooks (eds.). Biology of the Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 14–30.
- Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H Freeman Company, 1988.
Categories:
- Chelydridae
- Miocene turtles
- Miocene reptiles of North America
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
- Fossil taxa described in 1868
- Prehistoric turtle stubs