Reptilia - Testudines - Platychelyidae
Full reference: N. Cattoi and M. Freiberg. 1961. Nuevo hallazgo de Chelonia extinguidos en la República Argentina. Physis 22:202-202
Belongs to Notoemys according to E. Cadena and W. G. Joyce 2015
See also Cadena et al. 2013, Danilov and Parham 2008, de Broin and de la Fuente 1993, de la Fuente et al. 2014, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2007, Fernandez and de la Fuente 1994, Gaffney et al. 2006, Perea et al. 2014 and Puntener et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Notoemys oxfordiensis, Notoemys tlaxiacoensis, Notoemys zapatocaensis
Type specimen: MACN 18043, a partial shell (carapace and anterior plastral lobe). Its type locality is Las Lajas (MACN), which is in a Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Vaca Muerta Formation of Argentina.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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