Elochelys
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| Elochelys Temporal range: | |
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| Dinosauria - Elochelys | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | †Bothremydidae |
| Subfamily: | †Bothremydinae |
| Tribe: | †Bothremydini |
| Subtribe: | †Foxemydina |
| Genus: | †Elochelys Nopcsa, 1931 |
| Species: | †E. perfecta |
| Binomial name | |
| †Elochelys perfecta Nopcsa, 1931 | |
Elochelys ("swamp turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Fuveau Basin, France.[1] The genus consists solely of type species E. perfecta,[2][3] though a second species (E. covenarum) was reassigned to the genus Iberoccitanemys.
