Helochelys danubina von Meyer 1854 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudinata - Helochelydridae

Full reference: H. von Meyer. 1854. Mittheilung, an Professor Bronn gerichtet. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1854:575-581

Belongs to Helochelys according to W. G. Joyce 2017

See also Joyce et al. 2011, von Meyer 1854 and von Meyer 1855

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BSPG lost specimen, a partial skeleton (partial shell and a limb bone). Its type locality is Neukelheim Grünsandstein, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Grünsandstein Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (6 collections), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence

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