Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Alternative combinations: Chelone planimentum, Lytoloma planimentum
Full reference: R. Owen. 1841. Description of the remains of six species of marine turtles (Chelones) from the London Clay of Sheppy and Harwich. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 3 part 2(83):565-578
Belongs to Erquelinnesia according to R. T. J. Moody 1980
See also Lydekker 1889 and Owen 1842
Sister taxon: Erquelinnesia gosseleti
Type specimen: CAMSM specimen (cast in BMNH R1473), a partial skull (imperfect adult skull). Its type locality is Stone Ridge, near the Harwich harbour, which is in a Ypresian marine siliciclastic in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution: found only at Stone Ridge, near the Harwich harbour
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