Angolachelys
Extinct genus of turtles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angolachelys is an extinct genus of African marine turtle which existed in Angola during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Angolachelys mbaxi.[1] The type MGUAN-PA includes skull, jaw, and postcranial fragments found in the Tadi Beds of the Itombe Formation.
| Angolachelys Temporal range: Turonian | |
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| A. mbaxi skull, National Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Sandownidae |
| Genus: | †Angolachelys Mateus et al., 2009 |
| Species: | †A. mbaxi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Angolachelys mbaxi Mateus et al., 2009 | |
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Mateus et al. (2009).[1]
| Eucryptodira |
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References
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