Teneremys lapparenti de Broin 1980 (sideneck turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Full reference: F. de Broin. 1980. Les tortues de Gadoufaoua (Aptien du Niger); aperçu sur la Paléobiogéographie des Pelomedusidae (Pleurodira). Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 139:39-46

Belongs to Teneremys according to A. Pérez-García 2018

See also de Broin 1980 and Gaffney et al. 2006

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN GDF 820, a partial skeleton (partial carapace and skull). Its type locality is Camp des deux arbres, Gadoufaoua, which is in an Albian terrestrial horizon in the Elrhaz Formation of Niger.

Ecology: amphibious omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Niger (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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