Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae

Alternative combination: Notochelys costata

Full reference: R. Owen. 1882. On an Extinct Chelonian Reptile (Notochelys costata, Owen), from Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 38:178-183

Belongs to Notochelone according to R. Lydekker 1889

See also Fordyce 1991 and Owen 1882

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Sydney Museum specimen (cast in BMNH R77), a partial skeleton (imperfect shell with pectoral and limb bones). Its type locality is Flinder's River, which is in a Cretaceous marine horizon in Australia.

Distribution: found only at Flinder's River

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