Mesodermochelys
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mesodermochelys-163-5338080
title:
Mesodermochelys
text:
Mesodermochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle known from the Campanian to the Maastrichtian of what today is Japan and from the Maastrichtian of Chile. One species is known, the type species M. undulatus; it was given its binomial name by Ren Hirayama and Tsutomu Chitoku in 1996. Studies of its skull indicate that it was a primitive member of the Dermochelyidae that was closely related to the Protostegidae. It has been described as the best representative of Mesozoic dermochelyids.
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of turtles
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesodermochelys
date created:
2008-05-12T03:51:09Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T20:08:02Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16