Ilatardia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | † Bothremydidae |
Clade: | † Bothremydodda |
Tribe: | † Taphrosphyini |
Genus: | †
Ilatardia Pérez-García, 2019 |
Species: | †I. cetiotesta
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Binomial name | |
†Ilatardia cetiotesta Pérez-García, 2019
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Ilatardia is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Farin Doutchi Formation of Niger. [1] The genus consists solely of type species I. cetiotesta. [2]
The holotype of Ilatardia was discovered in the Farin-Doutchi Formation of Niger. It consists entirely of a large, relatively complete skull, around 20 cm in length. [1]