Apodichelys lucianoi Price 1954 (sideneck turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines

Full reference: I. L. Price. 1954. Um quelônio pleurodiro no calcário da Série Apodi, Cretáceo do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Rio de Janeiro: Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral / Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia. Notas Preliminares e Estudos 85:1-17

Belongs to Apodichelys according to D. R. Oliveira and P. S. Romano 2007

See also Campos and de Broin 1981 and Gaffney et al. 2006

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: DNPM 418-R, a shell (steinkern). Its type locality is Mossoró-03, Potiguar basin, which is in a Turonian deep subtidal packstone/grainstone in the Jandaíra Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: amphibious omnivore

Distribution: found only at Mossoró-03, Potiguar basin

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