Toxochelys

Toxochelys
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Fossil specimen, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Panchelonioidea
Family: Toxochelyidae
Baur, 1895
Genus: Toxochelys
Cope, 1873
Species
  • T. latiremis Cope, 1873 (type)
  • T. moorevillensis Zangerl, 1953

Toxochelys (/txʌkɛlz/) is an extinct genus of marine turtle from the Late Cretaceous period. It is the most commonly found fossilized turtle species in the Smoky Hill Chalk, in western Kansas.[1]

  1. ^ www.oceansofkansas.com Retrieved on May 12, 2008