Pelocomastes

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Pelocomastes
Fossil range: Eocene
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Genus: Pelocomastes
Vis, 1897

Pelocomastes is an extinct genus of turtle from the Eocene.

[edit] Sources

  • The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer
  • Turtles of Venezuela (Contributions to herpetology) by Peter Charles Howard Pritchard and Trebbau