Dortoka vasconica Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Dortokidae

Full reference: F. d.e. Lapparent de Broin and X. Murelaga. 1996. Une nouvelle faune de chéloniens dans le Crétacé supérieur européen. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris 323:729-735

Belongs to Dortoka according to A. Pérez-García 2017

See also Cadena and Joyce 2015, de Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1999, Gaffney et al. 2006, Lapparent de Broin et al. 2004 and Pérez-García et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Dortoka botanica, Dortoka vremiri

Type specimen: MCNA 6313, a partial shell (partial shell). Its type locality is Laño L1A, which is in a Campanian coastal sandstone/siltstone in the Vitoria Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Spain (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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