Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

Full reference: M. Faura y Sanz. 1915. Una tortuga fósil en el eocénico de Gerona. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 15:291-295

Belongs to Thalassochelys according to M. Faura y Sanz 1915

Sister taxa: Caretta caretta, Caretta patriciae, Thalassochelys testei, Thalassochelys (Colpochelys), Thalassochelys phosphatica, Thalassochelys mutinensis, Thalassochelys caouana, Thalassochelys eocaenica, Thalassochelys bellunensis, Thalassochelys (Halichelys), Thalassochelys libyca

Type specimen: specimen lost, a partial shell. Its type locality is Montjuic (Eocene), which is in a Lutetian marine horizon in Spain.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Thalassochelys caretta in the database

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