Yaminuechelys

Yaminuechelys
Temporal range: Late Santonian-Thanetian (Tiupampan)
~84.9–58.7 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Chelidae
Subfamily: Hydromedusinae
Genus: †Yaminuechelys
De la Fuente et al. 2001[1]
Species
  • Y. gasperinii De la Fuente et al. 2001
  • Y. maior Staesche 1929
  • Y sulcipeculiaris Oriozabala, Sterli & De La Fuente 2020

Yaminuechelys is an extinct genus of chelid turtle from Argentina and the Dorotea Formation of Chile. The genus first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and became extinct during the Late Paleocene.[2]

  1. ^ De la Fuente, M., F. Lapparent de Broin, and T. Manera de Bianco. 2001, The oldest and first nearly complete skeleton of a chelid, of the Hydromedusa sub-group (Chelidae, Pleurodira), from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Bullettin de la Société Géologique de France. 172:237–244.
  2. ^ Bona, P. & De la Fuente, M. 2005. Phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications of Yaminuechelys major (Staesche, 1929) new comb., a large long-necked chelid turtle from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):569–582.