Notochelone
Appearance
Notochelone Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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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] Its holotype was a small turtle, and was about the same size as the modern green turtle,[1] but might have been a juvenile. Analytical studies have indicated that the creatures frequently ate benthic molluscs.[5]
References
- ^ a b www.kronosaurus.com.au Archived 2008-07-19 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on May 12th, 2008.
- ^ 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 Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on May 12th, 2008.
- ^ Kear, B. P. (2006). "First gut contents in a Cretaceous sea turtle". Biology Letters. 2 (1): 113–115. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0374. PMC 1617194. PMID 17148341.
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