Trachydermochelys phlyctaenus Seeley 1869 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata - Helochelydridae

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Trachydermochelys according to W. G. Joyce 2022

See also Joyce 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CAMSM 56340–6, a partial shell (seven peripheral plates). Its type locality is Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data], which is in an Albian open shallow subtidal marl in the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data]

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