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Rhinochelys

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Testudines

Family
  
Protostegidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Suborder
  
Cryptodira

Rank
  
Genus

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Turtle, Protostegidae, Atlantochelys, Desmatochelys, Santanachelys

Rhinochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtles belonging to the family Protostegidae (sometimes placed by some authors in the family Desmatochelyidae).

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Fossil records

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the upper Cretaceous of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Lebanon (age range: 99.7 to 89.3 million years ago).

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Rhinochelys pulchriceps, (Owen, 1851)
  • Rhinochelys benstedi
  • Rhinochelys nammourensis, Haiyan Tong, Ren Hirayama, Edouard Makhoul and François Escuillie, 2006

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    Rhinochelys Wikipedia
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