Psephophorus von Meyer 1847 (leatherback)

Reptilia - Testudines - Dermochelyidae

Parent taxon: Dermochelyini according to A. D. Gentry et al. 2025

See also Andrews 1906, Carroll 1988, de la Fuente et al. 1995, Delfino et al. 2013, Dodd and Morgan 1992, Fallon and Boessenecker 2020, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1930, Hirayama 1995, Joyce et al. 2004, Karl 2007, Köhler 1995, Lynch and Parham 2003, Peters et al. 2019, Robinson et al. 2024, Sepkoski 2002, Weems 1988, Weems 2023 and Zug 2001

Sister taxon: Cosmochelys

Subtaxa: Psephophorus polygonus Psephophorus pseudostracion Psephophorus scaldii

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Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution:

• Pliocene of France (1 collection), United States (2: California, North Carolina)

• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Belgium (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Denmark (1), Italy (2), the Netherlands (1), Slovakia (1), United States (12: California, Maryland, Virginia)

• Oligocene of Germany (2), United States (2: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Antarctica (3), Egypt (1)

Total: 31 collections each including a single occurrence

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