Prionochelys

Prionochelys
Temporal range: Santonian–Campanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Genus: Prionochelys
Species:
P. matutina
Binomial name
Prionochelys matutina
Zangerl, 1953

Prionochelys is an extinct genus of pancheloniid from the Mooreville Chalk and Eutaw Formations of Alabama. It consists of a single species, P. matutina.[1]

  1. ^ R, Zangerl (1953). "The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part 3. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Part 4. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae". Fieldiana Geology Memoirs. 3: 61–277.