Peritresius
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Extinct genus of turtles
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| P. martini holotype carapace | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Ctenochelyidae |
| Genus: | †Peritresius Baird, 1964 |
| Type species | |
| †Chelone ornata Leidy, 1856 | |
| Species[1] | |
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Peritresius is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous deposits in the US Eastern Seaboard.
Phylogeny
Below is a cladogram from the analysis of Gentry, Ebersole & Kiernan, 2019:[3]
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References
- 1 2 Gentry, A. D.; Parham, J. F.; Ehret, D. J.; Ebersole, J. A. (2018). "A New Species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the Occurrence of the Genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America". PLOS ONE. 13 (4) e0195651. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1395651G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195651. PMC 5906092. PMID 29668704.
- ↑ Leidy J. Notices of remains of extinct turtles of New Jersey collected by Professor Cook of the State Geological Survey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia. 1856; 8: 303–304.
- ↑ Gentry, A.D.; Ebersole, J.A.; Kiernan, C.R. (2019). "Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies". Royal Society Open Science. 6 (12) 191950. Bibcode:2019RSOS....691950G. doi:10.1098/rsos.191950. PMC 6936288. PMID 31903219.
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