Cearachelys

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Cearachelys
Temporal range:
Ma
↓
Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: †Bothremydidae
Subfamily: †
Bothremydinae
Tribe: †Cearachelyini
Genus: †Cearachelys
Gaffney, Campos and Hirayama, 2001
Species:
†C. placidoi
Binomial name
†Cearachelys placidoi
Gaffney, Campos and Hirayama, 2001

Cearachelys is an

monotypic, with only type species Cearachelys placidoi known.[2]

Etymology

The genus was named for Ceará, the Brazilian state where the species was discovered. The specific name was named after Placido Nuvens, a director of the Museu Paleontologico de Santana do Cariri.[2]

Description

In 2001, the remains of two mostly complete turtle skeletons from the

plastron measuring some 20 cm long.[3]

The species was identified as a

phylogeny of extinct pleurodires, Gaffney united the two closely related genera in the tribe Cearachelyini.[5]

References

  1. S2CID 225163208
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  2. ^
    hdl:2246/2936
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  3. ^ de Oliveira, Gustavo Ribeiro (2007). "Taphonomical Aspects of Testudines from Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil". Anuário do Instituto de Geociências - UFRJ. 30 (1). Brazil: 83–93. e-.
  4. S2CID 59369303
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  5. S2CID 85790134
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