Argillochelys

Argillochelys; Temporal range: Middle-Late Eocene
	Shell of Argillochelys subcristata and skull of Glossochelys, at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Clade:	Pancheloniidae
Genus:	†Argillochelys; Lydekker, 1889

Argillochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the middle to lower Eocene in what is now the island of Great Britain. It was first named by Lydekker in 1889.

A species, A. africana, was found in Morocco, and described in 2008 by Tong & Hirayama.^[1]

Another species, A. foveopalatus, was found in Kazakhstan, and described in 2026 by Danilov et al.^[2]

References

↑ Tong, Haiyan; Ren Hirayama (November 2008). "A new species of Argillochelys (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 179 (6): 623–630. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.179.6.623.
↑ Rodríguez-Danilov, I. G.; Zvonok, E. A.; Panteleev, A. V.; Akhmedenov, K. M.; Yakupova, D. B. (2026). "A new species of Argillochelys (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Bartonian of Kazakhstan". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. doi:10.1080/08912963.2026.2711453.

External links

Argillochelys at the Paleobiology Database
www.ppne.co.uk

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[1] Tong, Haiyan; Ren Hirayama (November 2008). "A new species of Argillochelys (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 179 (6): 623–630. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.179.6.623.

[2] Rodríguez-Danilov, I. G.; Zvonok, E. A.; Panteleev, A. V.; Akhmedenov, K. M.; Yakupova, D. B. (2026). "A new species of Argillochelys (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Bartonian of Kazakhstan". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. doi:10.1080/08912963.2026.2711453.

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