Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. On remains of Eocene and Mesozoic Chelonia and a tooth of (?) Ornithopsis. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 45:227-246

Belongs to Chelone according to R. Lydekker 1889

See also Lydekker 1889

Sister taxa: Chelone costata, Chelone girundica, Chelone vanbenedeni

Type specimen: BMNH 35186, a mandible (mandible). Its type locality is Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data], which is in an Albian open shallow subtidal marl in the West Melbury Marly Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data]

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