Pneumatoarthrus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Holotype vertebra ANSP 9225 seen from three different angles | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | †Protostegidae |
Genus: | †Pneumatoarthrus Cope, 1870 |
Species: | †P. peloreus
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Binomial name | |
†Pneumatoarthrus peloreus Cope, 1870
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Pneumatoarthrus is an extinct genus of sea turtle known from the Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) Mount Laurel Formation of Monmouth County, New Jersey.[1][2] Only a single species, P. peloreus, is known.[1][2]