Yaminuechelys

Yaminuechelys; Temporal range: Late Santonian-Thanetian (Tiupampan); ~84.9–58.7 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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
Species
	Y. gasperinii De la Fuente et al. 2001; Y. maior Staesche 1929;

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 then becomes 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

^ ^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