Dinochelys
Extinct genus of turtles
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Dinochelys (from a reference to the Dinosaur National Monument Visitor Center and Greek chelys, turtle) is an extinct genus of paracryptodiran turtle from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation.[1]
| Dinochelys Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| Shell of D. whitei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
| Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
| Genus: | †Dinochelys Gaffney, 1979 |
| Species: | †D. whitei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Dinochelys whitei Gaffney, 1979 | |
