Dorsetochelys

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Dorsetochelys
Temporal range: Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous 150–143 Ma
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Dorsetochelys

Evans and Kemp, 1976
Binomial name
Dorsetochelys delairi
Evans and Kemp, 1976

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Dorsetochelys is an extinct genus of turtle from the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous of western North America and southern England.

Taxonomy

The type species, Dorsetochelys delairi, was described on the basis of DORCM G.23, a complete skull from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group of Dorset, England.[1] Later, a turtle skull from the vicinity of Como Bluff, Wyoming, was described as a new species, D. buzzops, in honor of Buzz Pitman, a museum director of the Rock River Museum near Como Bluff.[2]

See also

References

  1. Evans and Kemp, 1976. A new turtle skull from the Purbeckian of England and a note on the early dichotomies of cryptodire turtles. Palaeontology, 19, 317–324.
  2. R. T. Bakker. 1998. Dinosaur mid-life crisis: the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in Wyoming and Colorado. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:67-77


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