Arenila

Arenila
Temporal range: Maastrichtian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Bothremydidae
Clade: Bothremydodda
Tribe: Taphrosphyini
Genus: Arenila
De Broin & Werner, 1998
Species:
A. krebsi
Binomial name
Arenila krebsi
De Broin & Werner, 1998

Arenila is an extinct genus of bothremydid[1] pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Western Desert of Egypt. The genus consists solely of type species A. krebsi.[2]

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Arenila". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ F. Lapparent de Broin and C. Werner. 1998. New Late Cretaceous turtles from the Western Desert, Egypt. Annales de Paléontologie 84(2):131-214