Uluops Temporal range: Late Jurassic
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3D render of the skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
Genus: | †Uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 |
Species: | †U. uluops
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Binomial name | |
†Uluops uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
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Uluops is an extinct genus of paracryptodire turtle from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of North America. The type and only species is Uluops uluops, which is known from a single skull from the Morrison Formation.[1][2]