Propleura Cope 1870 (sea turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae

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

Parent taxon: Osteopyginae according to O. W. M. Kuhn 1966

See also Cope 1870 and Cope 1884

Sister taxon: Rhetechelys

Subtaxa: Propleura borealis

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Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Cream Ridge Marl Company pit (Hornerstown Fm.) (Cretaceous of New Jersey)

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