| Notochelone Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| Type specimen, partial carapace | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Protostegidae |
| Genus: | †Notochelone Lydekker, 1889 |
| Type species | |
| †Notochelys costata Owen, 1882
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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 1889.23 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 1 metre (3.3 ft).51 Analytical studies have indicated that the creatures frequently ate benthic molluscs.6
References
References
- "Kronosaurus Korner - Protostegid Sea Turtles". www.kronosauruskorner.com.au. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
- 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
- paleodb.org Retrieved on May 12th, 2008.
- www.qm.qld.gov.au Archived 2007-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on May 12th, 2008.
- Kear, Benjamin P. (2006-09-11). "Reassessment of Cratochelone Berneyi Longman, 1915, a giant sea turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (3): 779–783. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[779:ROCBLA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Kear, B. P. (2006). "First gut contents in a Cretaceous sea turtle". Biology Letters. 2 (1): 113–115. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2005.0374. PMC 1617194. PMID 17148341.
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