Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Alternative combination: Plesiochelys costata
Full reference: R. Owen. 1853. Part I. A monograph on the fossil chelonian reptiles of the Wealden clays and Purbeck limestones. Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Palaeontographical Society 7(25):1-12
Belongs to Chelone according to R. Owen 1853
See also Delair 1958, Heinrich 1991, Lydekker and Boulenger 1887, Milner 2011 and Pérez-García 2012
Sister taxa: Chelone girundica, Chelone jessoni, Chelone vanbenedeni
Type specimen: BMNH 2370, a partial shell (slab of sandstone showing the ventral surface of the anterior portion of the left side of the carapace). Its type locality is Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, which is in a Valanginian terrestrial sandstone in the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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