Waluchelys
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Extinct genus of reptile
| Waluchelys | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Family: | †Australochelyidae |
| Genus: | †Waluchelys Sterli et. al., 2020 |
| Species: | †W. cavitesta
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| Binomial name | |
| †Waluchelys cavitesta Sterli et. al., 2020
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Waluchelys is an extinct genus of australochelyid that lived during the Late Triassic epoch. It is known from a single species, Waluchelys cavitesta.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ Sterli, Juliana; Martínez, Ricardo N.; Cerda, Ignacio A.; Apaldetti, Cecilia (6 August 2020). Benson, Roger (ed.). "Appearances can be deceptive: bizarre shell microanatomy and histology in a new Triassic turtle (Testudinata) from Argentina at the dawn of turtles". Papers in Palaeontology . 7 (2): 1097–1132. doi:10.1002/spp2.1334. ISSN 2056-2799 . Retrieved 21 September 2024 – via Wiley Online Library.
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