Notochelone
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Notochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle, which existed about 100 million years ago.[1] The species was first described by Richard Owen in 1882 as Notochelys costata. It was renamed by Richard Lydekker in 1889.[2][3] It was the most common marine reptile living in the inlands of the sea around Queensland, Australia.[4] It was small turtle with carapace less than Script error: No such module "convert"..[5][1] Analytical studies have indicated that the creatures frequently ate benthic molluscs.[6]
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- ↑ R. Lydekker. 1889. Note on some points in the nomenclature of fossil reptiles and amphibians, with preliminary notices of two new species. Geological Magazine, decade 3 6:325-326
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