Mexichelys

Mexichelys Temporal range: Late Campanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Family:	Cheloniidae
Genus:	Mexichelys Parham & Pyenson, 2010
Species
M. coahuilaensis (Brinkman et al., 2009) (type)
Synonyms
Euclastes coahuilaensis Brinkman et al., 2009

Mexichelys is an extinct monotypic genus of sea turtle which lived in Mexico during the Cretaceous. The only species is Mexichelys coahuilaensis.^[1] Mexichelys was erected in 2010 as a replacement name for Euclastes coahuilaensis, a species named in 2009.^[2]

Cladogram based on Lynch and Parham (2003)^[3] and Parham and Pyenson (2010)^[1]:

Cheloniidae sensu lato	Toxochelys Mexichelys Lophochelyinae Euclastes Argillochelys Eochelone Erquelinnesla Pacifichelys Puppigerus Cheloniidae sensu stricto

References

1. ^ ^{a b} James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology 84 (2): 231–247. doi:10.1666/09-077R.1. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/09-077R.1. 
2. ^ Brinkman, D.; Aquillon-Martinez, M.C.; Dávila, C.A.L.; Jamniczky, H.; Eberth, D.A.; and Colbert, M. (2009). "Euclastes coahuilaensis sp. nov., a basal cheloniid turtle from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila State, Mexico". PaleoBios 28 (3): 76–88. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/science/paleobios/abstracts_26to.php. 
3. ^ Lynch, S.C.; and Parham, J.F. (2003). "The first report of hard-shelled sea turtles (Cheloniidae sensu lato) from the Miocene of California, including a new species (Euclastes hutchisoni) with unusually plesiomorphic characters". PaleoBios 23 (3): 21–35. http://www.seaturtle.org/PDF/Lynch_2003_PaleoBios.pdf. 

External links

• Mexichelys in the Paleobiology Database

Turtles portal