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Argillochelys

Argillochelys
Temporal range: Middle-Late Eocene
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Shell of Argillochelys subcristata and skull of Puppigerus crassicostata, at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Chelonioidea
Family: Cheloniidae
Genus: Argillochelys
Lydekker, 1889

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

A species, A. africana, was found in Morocco, and described in 2002 by Tong & Hirayama.


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