Reptilia - Testudinata - Helochelydridae

The generic name is composed by Arago-, referring to the Spanish autonomous community of Aragon (Aragn in Spanish), to which the type locality belongs; and chersis, a Latinized word of Greek origin () which means land or dry land, following the criteria used to establish the generic name of some other terrestrial turtles, including some basal forms (i.e., Proterochersis and Palaeochersis).

Full reference: A. Perez-Garcia, E. Espilez, L. Mampel and L. Alcala. 2019. A new basal turtle represented by the two most complete skeletons of Helochelydridae in Europe. Cretaceous Research 1-55

Parent taxon: Helochelydridae according to A. Perez-Garcia et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Helochelydra, Helochelys, Naomichelys, Plastremys, Solemydinae, Trachydermochelys, Tretosternon

Subtaxa: Aragochersis lignitesta

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Type: Aragochersis lignitesta

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Santa Maria Mine, Ariño (AR-1) (Cretaceous of Spain)

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