Dinochelys

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]

Dinochelys Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Shell of D. whitei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Pantestudines
Clade:	Testudinata
Clade:	†Paracryptodira
Family:	†Pleurosternidae
Genus:	†Dinochelys Gaffney, 1979
Species:	†D. whitei
Binomial name
†Dinochelys whitei Gaffney, 1979

See also

• Paleontology portal

• Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation