Palaeomedusa Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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Palaeomedusa testa fossil at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
Family: | †Thalassemydidae |
Genus: | †Palaeomedusa |
Species: | †P. testa
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Binomial name | |
†Palaeomedusa testa Meyer, 1860
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Palaeomedusa testa is an extinct species of thalassochelydian turtle from the Tithonian of the Late Jurassic (145.5 to 150.8 million years ago).[1] It was first described by the German palaeontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1860.[2] It is the only species classified under the genus Palaeomedusa.[3]