Emarginachelys

Emarginachelys

Taxobox
name = "Emarginachelys"


image_width = 225px
fossil_range=Late Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
familia = Chelydridae
genus = "Emarginachelys"
species = "E. cretacea"

"Emarginachelys cretacea" is the earliest described chelydrid, known from well preserved fossils from the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous of Montana.


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