Elochelys

Elochelys ("swamp turtle")[1] is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Fuveau Basin, France. The genus consists solely of type species E. perfecta,[2][3] though a second species (E. covenarum) was reassigned to the genus Iberoccitanemys.

Elochelys
Temporal range: Paleocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: †Bothremydidae
Subfamily: †Bothremydinae
Tribe: †Bothremydini
Subtribe: †Foxemydina
Genus: †Elochelys
Nopcsa, 1931
Species:
†E. perfecta
Binomial name
†Elochelys perfecta
Nopcsa, 1931

Discovery

Elochelys was discovered in the Fuveau region of France, and is known from exclusively from a shell. The holotype was described by Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás in 1931.[2] A second species was described by Laurent, Yong and Claude, 2002. [4] but was subsequently reassigned to a new genus, Iberoccitanemys.[1]

References
  1. Gaffney, E.S., Tong, H., Meylan, P.A., 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300, 1–700.
  2. Nopcsa, F., 1931. Sur des nouveaux restes de Tortues du Danien du Midi de la France. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 1, 223–236.
  3. "Fossilworks: Arenila". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. Laurent, Y., Tong, H., Claude, J., 2002. New side-necked turtle (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Maastrichtian of the Petites-Pyre´ne´es (Haute-Garonne, France). Cretaceous Research 23, 465–471.


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