Tongemys
Appearance
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Tongemys | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Family: | †Compsemydidae |
Genus: | †Tongemys Joyce et al., 2022 |
Species: | †T. enigmatica
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Binomial name | |
†Tongemys enigmatica Joyce et al., 2022
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Tongemys is an extinct genus of compsemydid turtle that lived in England during the Berriasian. It contains a single species, Tongemys enigmatica.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Joyce, Walter G.; Bourque, Jason R.; Fernandez, Vincent; Rollot, Yann (17 August 2022). "An alternative interpretation of small-bodied turtles from the "Middle Purbeck" of England as a new species of compsemydid turtle". Fossil Record. 25 (2): 263–274. Bibcode:2022FossR..25..263J. doi:10.3897/fr.25.85334. ISSN 2193-0074. Retrieved 9 September 2024.