Suborder Cryptodira Genus †Palaeomedusa Phylum Chordata | Class Reptilia Family †Thalassemydidae Species †P. testa Order Turtle | |
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Palaeomedusa testa is an extinct species of sea turtle from the Tithonian of the Late Jurassic (145.5 to 150.8 million years ago). It was first described by the German palaeontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1860. It is the only species classified under the genus Palaeomedusa.
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