Reptilia - Testudinata - Pleurosternidae

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Etymology: moncayensis derives from Moncayo, alluding to the fact that the holotype and only known specimen of the new species comes from greda, a Spanish town belonging to the Moncayo Region.

Full reference: A. Pérez-Garcia, M. Martín-Jiménez, M. Aurell, J. I. Canudo, and D. Casternera. 2021. A new Iberian pleurosternid (Jurassic-Cretaceous transition, Spain) and first neuroanatomical study of this clade of stem turtles. Historical Biology 1-14

Belongs to Pleurosternon according to A. Pérez-Garcia et al. 2021

Sister taxon: Pleurosternon bullockii

Type specimen: MPZ 2020/53, a partial skeleton (partial skeleton including several disarticulated elements of the carapace and the plastron, as well as the partial skull). Its type locality is El Pontarrón 1, which is in a Tithonian/Berriasian terrestrial mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Matute Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at El Pontarrón 1

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