| Fontainechelon Temporal range: Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Family: | Testudinidae |
| Genus: | †Fontainechelon Pérez-García et. al., 2016 |
Fontainechelon is an extinct genus of testudinid that lived in France during the Early Eocene. It is known from a single species, F. cassouleti.
References
- Pérez-García, Adán; Ortega, Francisco; Jiménez Fuentes, Emiliano (July 2016). "Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (3): 648–675. doi:10.1111/zoj.12381. Retrieved 3 October 2024 – via Oxford Academic.
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| Fontainechelon | |
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