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Argillochelys
Temporal range: Middle-Late Eocene
Shell of Argillochelys subcristata and skull of Glossochelys, at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Pancheloniidae
Genus: Argillochelys
Lydekker, 1889

Argillochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the middle to lower Eocene in what is now the island of Great Britain. It was first named by Lydekker in 1889.

A species, A. africana, was found in Morocco, and described in 2008 by Tong & Hirayama.

References

  1. Tong, Haiyan; Ren Hirayama (November 2008). "A new species of Argillochelys (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 179 (6): 623–630. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.179.6.623.

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Taxon identifiers
Argillochelys
Cheloniidae family
Genera
Species of the Cheloniidae family
Allopleuron
Argillochelys
Caretta
Carolinochelys
Chelonia
Eochelone
Eretmochelys
Gigantatypus
Glarichelys
Itilochelys
Lepidochelys
Mexichelys
Miocaretta
Natator
Pacifichelys
Syllomus
Tasbacka
Phylogenetic arrangement of turtles based on turtles of the world 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status. †=Extinct.
Testudines
Suborder
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Cryptodira
Chelonioidea
(Sea turtles)
Cheloniidae
Dermochelyidae
 
Kinosternoidea
Dermatemydidae
Kinosternidae
Testudinoidea
Emydidae
Geoemydidae
 Platysternidae
Testudinidae
Trionychia
Carettochelyidae
Trionychidae
 
 
Chelydridae
Nanhsiungchelyidae
Protostegidae
 
Pleurodira
 
Araripemydidae
Bothremydidae
Chelidae
Pelomedusidae
Podocnemididae
Sahonachelyidae
 
 
 


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