Dinochelys Temporal range: Late
Jurassic
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Shell of D. whitei | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Family: | † Pleurosternidae |
Genus: | †
Dinochelys Gaffney, 1979 |
Species: | †D. whitei
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Binomial name | |
†Dinochelys whitei Gaffney, 1979
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Dinochelys (from a reference to the Dinosaur National Monument Visitor Center and Greek chelys, turtle) is an extinct genus of paracryptodiran turtle from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. [1]