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| Pappochelys Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Genus: | †Pappochelys Schoch and Sues, 2015 |
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| †Pappochelys rosinae Schoch and Sues, 2015
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Pappochelys (meaning "grandfather turtle" in Greek) is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile closely related to turtles. The genus contains only one species, Pappochelys rosinae, that was named in 2015 from the Middle Triassic of Germany. The discovery of Pappochelys provides strong support for turtles' placement within Diapsida, a hypothesis that has long been suggested by molecular data but never previously by the fossil record. It is morphologically intermediate between true turtles and a reptile from the Middle Permian of South Africa called Eunotosaurus. Eunotosaurus and Pappochelys are both basal members of the clade Pantestudines, which is defined as all taxa more closely related to turtles than to other reptiles.[1]
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