Reptilia - Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Full reference: K. Carpenter and R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part II. A new baenid turtle. Hunteria 2(6):3-4
Belongs to Uluops according to Y. Rollot et al. 2021
See also Carpenter and Bakker 1990 and Joyce and Anquetin 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CPS 100, a skull. Its type locality is Main Breakfast Bench Quarry, which is in a Tithonian deltaic sandstone/mudstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (2: Wyoming collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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