Uluops
Extinct genus of turtles
Uluops Temporal range: Late Jurassic 150.8–145.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
Genus: | †Uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 |
Species: | †U. uluops |
Binomial name | |
†Uluops uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 |
Uluops is an extinct genus of paracryptodire turtle from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of North America. The type and only species is Uluops uluops, which is known from a single skull from the Morrison Formation.[1][2]
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Further reading
- K. Carpenter and R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part II. A new baenid turtle. Hunteria 2(6):3-4
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- See also: Angolachelonia
- Ankylopoda
- Mesochelydia
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