Elochelys ("swamp turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Fuveau Basin, France.[1] The genus consists solely of type species E. perfecta,[2][3] though a second species (E. covenarum) was reassigned to the genus Iberoccitanemys.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | †Bothremydidae |
Subfamily: | †Bothremydinae |
Tribe: | †Bothremydini |
Subtribe: | †Foxemydina |
Genus: | †Elochelys Nopcsa, 1931 |
Species: | †E. perfecta |
Binomial name | |
†Elochelys perfecta Nopcsa, 1931 |
Discovery
Elochelys was discovered in the Fuveau region of France, and is known from exclusively from a shell. The holotype was described by Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás in 1931.[2] A second species was described by Laurent, Yong and Claude, 2002.[4] but was subsequently reassigned to a new genus, Iberoccitanemys.[1]