Gomphochelys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | Dermatemydidae |
Genus: | †Gomphochelys Bourque et. al., 2015 |
Type species | |
Gomphochelys nanus |
Gomphochelys is an extinct genus of dermatemydid that lived in Wyoming during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. It is known from a single species, G. nanus.[1]