Cyrtura
| Cyrtura Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Genus: | †Cyrtura Jaekel, 1904 |
| Species: | †C. temnospondyla
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cyrtura temnospondyla Jaekel, 1904
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Cyrtura is a dubious genus of extinct
Testudines rather than Temnospondyli. Warren and Hutchinson (1983) rejected the temnospondyl classification of the genus based on examination of a cast of the holotype, and subsequent studies showed that Cyrtura is actually a marine turtle, although the lack of diagnostic characters renders it a nomen dubium.[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Jaekel, O., 1904. Die Bildung der ersten Halswirbel und die Wirbelbildung im allgemeinen. Zeitschrift der Dtsch. Geol. Gesellschaft 56, 109–119.
- hdl:10141/604394.
- S2CID 31091127.