Hydropelta
Hydropelta is a genus of late Jurassic turtle from marine deposits in the Jura Mountains of eastern France.
| Hydropelta | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Eurysternidae |
| Genus: | †Hydropelta von Meyer, 1860 |
| Type species | |
| Chelone meyeri Thiolliere, 1851 | |
Like many other eurysternid taxa, Hydropelta was at times considered the same species as Eurysternum. Originally described as a species of Chelone, it was renamed Hydropelta by Hermann von Meyer in 1860. Later, it was synonymized with Eurysternum by Oertel (1915), but was treated as a distinct genus and possibly a synonym of Solnhofia by Lapparent de Broin et al. (1996). However, Hydropelta is distinct from other eurysternids by the characters of the fontanelles and plastron.[1][2]
References
- Jérémy Anquetin & Walter G. Joyce (2014) A reassessment of the Late Jurassic turtle Eurysternum wagleri (Eucryptodira, Eurysternidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(6): 1317-1328. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2014.880449 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2014.880449#.VFkLgfnF_To
- Anquetin, J., Puntener, C., and Joyce, W.G., 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 (2):317-369.
- "Hydropelta" at the Encyclopedia of Life
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