| Cearachelys Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | †Bothremydidae |
| Subfamily: | †Bothremydinae |
| Tribe: | †Cearachelyini |
| Genus: | †Cearachelys Gaffney, Campos and Hirayama, 2001 |
| Species: | †C. placidoi
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| †Cearachelys placidoi Gaffney, Campos and Hirayama, 2001
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Cearachelys is an extinct genus of pleurodiran turtle which existed some 110 million years ago.[1] The genus is monotypic, with only type species Cearachelys placidoi known.[2]
- ^ Fernandes Aquino dos Santos, Márcia; Mattos, Ingrid; Mermudes, José Ricardo M.; Scheffler, Sandro Marcelo; Reyes-Castillo, Pedro (2020). "A new passalid fossil (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Santana Formation (Crato member, Lower Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, NE Brazil: Paleoecological and paleobiogeographic implications". Cretaceous Research. 118: 104664. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104664. S2CID 225163208.
- ^ Gaffney, Eugene S.; Diogenes de Almeida Campos; Ren Hirayama (2001-02-27). "Cearachelys, a New Side-necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil". American Museum Novitates (3319). New York: American Museum of Natural History: 9. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)319<0001:CANSNT>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/2936.