Biology:Peritresius
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Peritresius is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous deposits in the US Eastern Seaboard.
Taxonomy
Two species are known, Peritresius ornatus (Leidy, 1856) and P. martini Gentry, Parham, Ehret, and Ebersole, 2018, both from Campanian-Maastrichtian age deposits in New Jersey, Alabama, and Mississippi.[1][2]
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram from the analysis of Gentry, Ebersole & Kiernan, 2019:[3]
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References
- ↑ Leidy J. Notices of remains of extinct turtles of New Jersey collected by Professor Cook of the State Geological Survey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia. 1856; 8: 303–304.
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedGentry2018 - ↑ Gentry, A.D.; Ebersole, J.A.; Kiernan, C.R. (2019). "Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies". Royal Society Open Science 6 (12). doi:10.1098/rsos.191950. PMID 31903219. Bibcode: 2019RSOS....691950G.
Wikidata ☰ Q54834290 entry Template:Testudines
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