Allopleuron
Allopleuron Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Fossil specimen, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Chelonioidea |
Family: | Cheloniidae |
Subfamily: | †Allopleuroninae |
Genus: | †Allopleuron |
Type species | |
†Allopleuron hofmanni (Gray, 1831)[1] |
Allopleuron hofmanni was a giant primitive 2-to-2.5-metre (6 ft 7 in to 8 ft 2 in) long sea turtle, now extinct. It is a basal member of the superfamily Chelonioidea closely related to Toxochelys.[2]
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