Macrocephalochelys

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Macrocephalochelys
Temporal range: Pliocene
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Chelydridae
Genus: †Macrocephalochelys
Piboplichko and Taraschchuk, 1960[1]
Species

†M. pontica[2]

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Macrocephalochelys is an extinct genus of turtles belonging in the family Chelydridae.[3] It was first described from a partial skull from the Pliocene found in the Ukraine by Piboplichko and Taraschchuk in 1960. It was assigned to the family Chelydridae by R. L. Carroll in 1988[4] although it had been hypothesised to belong in Chelydridae by Chkhikvadze in 1971.[5]

References

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