Araripemys

Araripemys

The Araripemys is an extinct testudinoid genus, of which a fossil has been found in Brazil, supposed to be 120,000,000 years old. According to the dating of this fossil, it therefore lived in the Jurassic Period, the second period of the Mesozoic Era.


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