Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae

Full reference: L. Moret. 1935. Rhinochelys amaberti, nouvelle espèce de tortue marine du Vraconien de la Fauge près du Villard-de-Lans (Isère). Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 5:605-619

Belongs to Rhinochelys according to I. Scavezzoni and V. Fischer 2018

See also Collins 1970

Sister taxa: Rhinochelys cantabrigiensis, Rhinochelys elegans, Rhinochelys nammourensis, Rhinochelys pulchriceps

Type specimen: UJF-ID.11167, a partial skull (partial cranium with mandible). Its type locality is Fauge valley, Villard-de-Lans, Isere, which is in an Albian marine marl in France.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Fauge valley, Villard-de-Lans, Isere

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