Published October 22, 2020
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Ragechelus Lapparent & Chirio & Bour 2020, n. gen.
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Description
Genus Ragechelus n. gen.
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TYPE SPECIES. — Ragechelus sahelica n. gen., n. sp.
DIAGNOSIS. — As for type and only species (type by monotypy).
ETYMOLOGY. — In honour to our missing Jean-Claude Rage friend, who studied fossils from the neighbouring Ibeceten area, and ΧΕΛύζ, turtle (fem.) in greek.
Notes
Published as part of Lapparent, France de, Chirio, Laurent & Bour, Roger, 2020, The oldest erymnochelyine turtle skull, Ragechelus sahelica n. gen., n. sp., from the Iullemmeden basin, Upper Cretaceous of Africa, and the associated fauna in its geographical and geological context, pp. 455-484 in Geodiversitas 42 (25) on page 466, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2020v42a25, http://zenodo.org/record/4447700
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lapparent & Chirio & Bour
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Bothremydidae
- Genus
- Ragechelus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ragechelus Lapparent, Chirio & Bour, 2020