en Glarichelys

Glarichelys
	G. gwinneri skeleton in Senckenberg Museum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Clade:	Pancheloniidae
Genus:	†Glarichelys; Zangerl, 1958

Glarichelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle which was originally considered to be from the middle Oligocene epoch but has more recently come to be considered from the Eocene epoch.^[1] It was first named by Zangerl in 1958.

*G. knorri* fossil cast at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

References

^ Danilov, Igor G.; Alexander O. Averianov (1997). "NEW DATA ON THE TURTLES FROM THE EARLY EOCENE OF KIRGHIZIA" (PDF). Vol. 4, No. 1, 1997, pp. 40 – 45. Russian Journal of Herpetology. Retrieved 2008-08-18.

External links

Glarichelys at the Paleobiology Database

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[1] Danilov, Igor G.; Alexander O. Averianov (1997). "NEW DATA ON THE TURTLES FROM THE EARLY EOCENE OF KIRGHIZIA" (PDF). Vol. 4, No. 1, 1997, pp. 40 – 45. Russian Journal of Herpetology. Retrieved 2008-08-18.

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