Fontainechelon

Fontainechelon
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: †
Pérez-García et. al., 2016

Fontainechelon is an extinct genus of testudinid that lived in France during the Early Eocene. It is known from a single species, F. cassouleti.[1]

References

  1. ^ Pérez-García, Adán; Ortega, Francisco; Jiménez Fuentes, Emiliano (July 2016). "Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (3): 648–675. doi:10.1111/zoj.12381. Retrieved 3 October 2024 – via Oxford Academic.


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