Enaliochelys chelonia Seeley 1869 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143

Belongs to Enaliochelys according to J. Anquetin et al. 2017

See also Pérez-García 2015 and Seeley 1869

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CAMSM J29898 to CAMSM J29955, a partial skeleton (partial postcranial disarticulated skeleton). Its type locality is Ely, non-specific locality, which is in a Kimmeridgian marine horizon in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Ely, non-specific locality

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