Articles | Volume 23, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-83-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-83-2020
Research article
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14 May 2020
Research article |  | 14 May 2020

An alternative interpretation of Peltochelys duchastelii as a paracryptodire

Walter G. Joyce and Yann Rollot

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Peltochelys duchastelii is an enigmatic fossil turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Bernissart, Belgium. Here we provide an alternative interpretation of the morphology of this turtle, which suggests for the first time relationships with paracryptodires, a now extinct group of turtles known from coeval deposits throughout western Europe and North America.
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