Bouliachelys

Bouliachelys
Temporal range: Cretaceous 105.3–99.7 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Dermochelyoidae
Genus: Bouliachelys

Bouliachelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from Cretaceous. Its parent taxon is the clade Dermochelyoidae.[1]

References

  1. Bardet, N.; Jalil, N. E.; De Lapparent De Broin, F.; Germain, D.; Lambert, O.; Amaghzaz, M. (2013). Viriot, Laurent, ed. "A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a Suction Feeding Apparatus Unique among Tetrapods". PLoS ONE 8 (7): e63586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063586. figure 7

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