Tullochelys montana Hutchison 2013 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Full reference: J. H. Hutchison. 2013. New turtles from the Paleogene of North America. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 477-497

Belongs to Tullochelys according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016

See also Hutchison 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCMP 136481, a partial skeleton (crushed shell anterior portion of carapace and anterior extremities of epiplastron and entoplastron, with corroded and disarticulated limb bones and vertebrae c). Its type locality is UCMP V90001 Snapper Pancake, which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of United States (5: Montana collections)

• Cretaceous of United States (1: Montana)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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