Reptilia - Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Full reference: R. Hirayama and T. Chitoku. 1996. Family Dermochelyidae (superfamily Chelonioidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of north Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New series 184:597-622
Belongs to Mesodermochelys according to R. Hirayama and T. Chitoku 1996
See also Hirayama 2007 and Hirayama and Hikida 1998
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: HMG 5, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Shirafunenosawa River, Inasato (Locality 1), which is in a Maastrichtian marine siltstone in the Hakobuchi Formation of Japan.
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Japan (10 collections)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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