Hylaeochelys kappa Pérez-García and Ortega 2014 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata

Full reference: A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega. 2014. A new species of the turtle Hylaeochelys (Eucryptodira) outside its known geographic and stratigraphic ranges of distribution. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13(3):183-188

Belongs to Hylaeochelys according to A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega 2014

Sister taxa: Hylaeochelys belli, Hylaeochelys latiscutata, Archaeochelys pougeti

Type specimen: SHN.LPP 172, a partial shell (Shell preserving the nuchalplate, the first to seventh neurals, the anterior regionof the eighth neural, the first pair of costals, the com-plete second to four). Its type locality is Porto do Barril Beach, which is in a Tithonian/Tithonian channel sandstone/claystone in the Freixial Formation of Portugal.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Porto do Barril Beach

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