Uluops

Uluops is an extinct genus of turtle[1] from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation. The type species is Uluops uluops.

Uluops
Temporal range: Late Jurassic 150.8–145.5 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Clade: †Paracryptodira
Genus: †Uluops
Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
Species:
†U. uluops
Binomial name
†Uluops uluops
Carpenter and Bakker, 1990

See also

References
  1. http://fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=57642
  • K. Carpenter and R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part II. A new baenid turtle. Hunteria 2(6):3-4
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