Yaminuechelys
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | Chelidae |
Subfamily: | Hydromedusinae |
Genus: | †Yaminuechelys De la Fuente et al. 2001[1] |
Species | |
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Yaminuechelys is an extinct genus of chelid turtle from Argentina and the Dorotea Formation of Chile. The genus first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and became extinct during the Late Paleocene.[2]
Species
The genus contains the following two species:
- Y. gasperinii De la Fuente et al. 2001[1] - Late Cretaceous Allen, Anacleto, La Colonia Formations, Argentina[3]
- Y. maior Staesche 1929[3][4] - Tiupampan Salamanca and Roca Formations, Argentina
References
- ^ a b De la Fuente, M., F. Lapparent de Broin, and T. Manera de Bianco. 2001, The oldest and first nearly complete skeleton of a chelid, of the Hydromedusa sub-group (Chelidae, Pleurodira), from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Bullettin de la Société Géologique de France. 172:237–244.
- ^ Bona, P. & De la Fuente, M. 2005. Phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications of Yaminuechelys major (Staesche, 1929) new comb., a large long-necked chelid turtle from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):569–582.
- ^ a b Yaminuechelys at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Staesche K. 1929. Schildkroteneste aus der oberen Kreide Patagoniens. Palaeontographica 72(1-6):103-123
Further reading
Categories:
- Chelidae
- Fossil Chelid Turtles
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Late Cretaceous turtles
- Santonian genus first appearances
- Paleocene genus extinctions
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Santonian life
- Campanian life
- Maastrichtian life
- Tiupampan
- Late Cretaceous reptiles of South America
- Paleocene reptiles of South America
- Cretaceous Argentina
- Paleogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Allen Formation
- Anacleto Formation
- Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Cretaceous Chile
- Fossils of Chile
- Fossil taxa described in 2001
- Danian genera
- Salamanca Formation