†Trachyaspis hantoniensis Lydekker 1889 (sea turtle)
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Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Preliminary notice of new fossil Chelonia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6th Series 3:53-54
Belongs to Trachyaspis according to Lydekker 1889
Sister taxa: Trachyaspis aegyptiaca, Trachyaspis bellunensis, Trachyaspis lardyi, Trionyx melitensis
Type specimen: BMNH R1443, a partial shell (the near entire penultimate marginal of the left side). Its type locality is Hordle Cliff Crocodile Bed, Hampshire, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Headon Beds Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Hordle Cliff Crocodile Bed, Hampshire
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