†Lembonax polemicus Cope 1870 (sea turtle)
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Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235
Belongs to Lembonax according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Cope 1870, Cope 1872 and Hay 1902
Sister taxon: Lembonax propylaeus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Squankum marl pits, which is in an Aquitanian/Burdigalian marine siltstone in the Kirkwood Formation of New Jersey
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Squankum marl pits
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