Protochelys blakii Mackie 1863 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata

Full reference: S. J. Mackie. 1863. Turtles in the Stonesfield Slate. The Geologist 6:41-43

Belongs to Protochelys according to J. Anquetin and J. Claude 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMUK OR37979, a limb element (an isolated, slightly crushed right coracoid). Its type locality is Stonesfield Slate quarries, which is in a Bathonian marginal marine sandstone in the Taynton Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Stonesfield Slate quarries

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