Proterochersis
Name:
Proterochersis.
Phonetic: Pro-teh-roe-kher-sis.
Named By: Fraas - 1913.
Synonyms: Chelytherium obscurum.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Anapasida,
Testudines, Pleurodira, Proterochersidae.
Species: P. robusta.
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Estimated about 50 centimetres.
Known locations: Germany.
Time period: Norian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial remains including the
shell.
Proterochersis was an early terrestrial turtle that live in Europe during the late Triassic, as one well as one of the earliest appearances of a pleurodiran (side-necked) turtle.
Further reading
- Proterochersis, eine pleurodire Schildkröte aus dem Keuper. -
Jahreshefte des Vereins für vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg
80:13-30. - E. Fraas - 1913.
- Revision of the Triassic European turtles Proterochersis
and
Murrhardtia (Reptilia, Testudinata,
Proterochersidae), with the
description of new taxa from Poland and Germany. - Zoological Journal
of the Linnean Society 177:395-427. - T. Szczygielski & T.
Sulej - 2016.
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