Santanachelys gaffneyi Hirayama 1998 (sea turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae

Full reference: R. Hirayama. 1998. Oldest known sea turtle. Nature 392:705-708

Belongs to Santanachelys according to D. Perea et al. 2014

See also Danilov and Parham 2008, Hirayama 1998, Oliveira and Romano 2007, Pérez-García and Murelaga 2013 and Puntener et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: THUg1386, a skeleton. Its type locality is Santana do Cariri (general), which is in an Aptian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal shale in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Santana do Cariri (general)

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