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.