Uluops
Extinct genus of turtles
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Uluops is an extinct genus of paracryptodire turtle from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of North America. The type and only species is Uluops uluops, which is known from a single skull from the Morrison Formation.[1][2]
| Uluops Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| 3D render of the skull | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
| Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
| Genus: | †Uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 |
| Species: | †U. uluops |
| Binomial name | |
| †Uluops uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 | |
