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Procolpochelys

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Procolpochelys
Temporal range: 33.9?3.6  Ma
Procolpochelys charlestonensis skull and shell at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade : Pancheloniidae
Genus: Procolpochelys
Hay 1908

Procolpochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Miocene of what is now Maryland , Virginia , and New Jersey . Its fossils have been found in the Calvert Formation . It was first named by Hay in 1908. [1]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Hay, O. P. (1908). "The Fossil Turtles of North America". Carnegie Inst. Of Washington, Pub . 75 : 1?568, pls. 1?113.

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