Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae
The species palomoi is in honor to Mr. Salvador Palomo, a retired technician of Museo Argentino Urquiza who helped to increase the knowledge of the vertebrate paleontology of the northern Neuqun province.
Full reference: I. J. Maniel, M. S. de la Fuente, and L. F. Filippi. 2022. A new chelid turtle, Prochelidella palomoi sp. nov., from Campanian Anacleto Formation, Neuquén Basin, North-Western Patagonia, Argentina. The Anatomical Record 1-12
Belongs to Prochelidella according to I. J. Maniel et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Prochelidella argentinae, Prochelidella buitreraensis, Prochelidella cerrobarcinae, Prochelidella portezuelae
Type specimen: MAU-Pv-AG-452, a partial skeleton (A partially preserved skull; a left first costal bone; a left odd costal bone; a well-preserved plastron including both epiplastra, an entoplastron, a right hyo). Its type locality is Cañadón de Aguada Grande, which is in a Campanian/Campanian wet floodplain mudstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: amphibious piscivore
Distribution: found only at Cañadón de Aguada Grande
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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