Biology:Notochelone
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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles
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| Type specimen, partial carapace | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Protostegidae |
| Genus: | †Notochelone Lydekker, 1889 |
| Type species | |
| †Notochelys costata Owen, 1882
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Notochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle, which existed about 100 million years ago.[1] The species was first described by Richard Owen in 1882 as Notochelys costata. It was renamed by Richard Lydekker in 1889.[2][3] It was the most common marine reptile living in the inlands of the sea around Queensland, Australia .[4] It was small turtle with carapace less than 1 metre (3.3 ft).[5][1] Analytical studies have indicated that the creatures frequently ate benthic molluscs.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kronosaurus Korner - Protostegid Sea Turtles". https://www.kronosauruskorner.com.au/museum/collections/protostegid-sea-turtles.
- ↑ R. Lydekker. 1889. Note on some points in the nomenclature of fossil reptiles and amphibians, with preliminary notices of two new species. Geological Magazine, decade 3 6:325-326
- ↑ paleodb.org Retrieved on May 12th, 2008.
- ↑ www.qm.qld.gov.au Retrieved on May 12th, 2008.
- ↑ Kear, Benjamin P. (2006-09-11). "Reassessment of Cratochelone Berneyi Longman, 1915, a giant sea turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Australia" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (3): 779–783. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[779:ROCBLA2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0272-4634. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634%282006%2926%5B779%3AROCBLA%5D2.0.CO%3B2.
- ↑ Kear, B. P. (2006). "First gut contents in a Cretaceous sea turtle". Biology Letters 2 (1): 113–115. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0374. PMID 17148341.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q21445729 entry
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