Pneumatoarthrus
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| Pneumatoarthrus Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Pneumatoarthrus
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| Pneumatoarthrus peloreus Cope, 1870
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Pneumatoarthrus is a Cretaceous sea turtle first identified by Edward Drinker Cope as a hadrosaur in 1870. The fossils were found in the chalk beds of Kansas. It may be synonymous with the better-known Atlantochelys, and therefore a close relative of the giant sea turtle Archelon.
References
Baird, D., 1978. "Pneumatoarthrus Cope, 1870, not a dinosaur but a sea-turtle". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 129(4):71-81.
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