Yelmochelys rosarioae Brinkman et al. 2016 (mud turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Full reference: D. Brinkman, M. C. Aguillon-Martinez, J. H. Hutchison and C. M. Brown. 2016. Yelmochelys rosarioae gen. et sp. nov., a stem kinosternid (Testudines; Kinosternidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico. PaleoBios 33:1-20

Belongs to Yelmochelys according to D. Brinkman et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CPC 278, a partial skeleton (partial plastron). Its type locality is Turtle Heaven Locality, Ejido of La Parrita, which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Mexico.

Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Mexico (6 collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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