Turtle Evolution Database

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Basic Information

Type:

Referred specimen

Genus:

Palaeomedusa

Species:

testa

Family:

Pelomedusidae

Status:

In collection

Country:

Germany

Repository Information

Repository:

Chlupáč’s Museum of Earth History at Charles University in Prague (CUP CHMHZ)

Repository #:

CUP CHMHZ-N/II/03c

Rights Holder:

Chlupáč’s Museum of Earth History at Charles University in Prague

Address:

Chlupáčovo muzeum historie Země PřF UK, Ústav geologie a paleontologie PřF UK, Albertov 6, Praha 2, 128 00
Prague, 12800
Czechia

Curator:

Martin Mazuch

Email:

martin.mazuch@natur.cuni.cz

Website:

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Geological Information

Age:

Tithonian

Locality:

Kelheim

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Preservation

Gypsum cast

Description:

Originally figured in Maack (1869), tab. 39, described as Eurysternum crassipes

References

Primary Reference:

Maack, G.A. 1869. Die bis jetzt bekannten fossilen Schildkröten und die im oberen Jura bei Kelheim (Bayern) und Hannover neu aufgefundenen ältesten Arten derselben. Palaeontographica 18:193–338.

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Additional References:

Anquetin J, Püntener C, Joyce W. 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Thalassochelydia.Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(2): 317–369.