Dinochelys (from a reference to the Dinosaur National Monument Visitor Center and Greek chelys, turtle) is an extinct genus of paracryptodiran turtle from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation.[1]
Dinochelys Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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Shell of D. whitei | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
Genus: | †Dinochelys Gaffney, 1979 |
Species: | †D. whitei |
Binomial name | |
†Dinochelys whitei Gaffney, 1979 | |