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Extinct genus of turtles

Solemys
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous Campanian–Maastrichtian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Family: Helochelydridae
Genus: Solemys
de Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga 1996
Type species
Solemys gaudryi
Matheron, 1869

Solemys is an extinct genus of stem turtle known from the Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian) of southern France and eastern Spain.

Taxonomy

Two species are known, the type species Solemys gaudryi (Matheron, 1869) and S. vermiculata de Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga, 1996. The former was originally assigned to the Cenozoic turtle genus Apholidemys by Matheron (1869), but de Lapparent de Broin and Murelaga (1996) recognized it as a stem turtle distinct from Apholidemys and renamed it Solemys.

References

  1. W. G. Joyce, S. D. Chapman, R. T. J. Moody and C. A. Walker. 2011. The skull of the solemydid turtle Helochelydra nopcsai from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight (UK) and a review of Solemydidae. Special Papers in Palaeontology 86:75-97.
  2. "Figure 13. Solemys, Late Cretaceous, western Europe, intraspecific or..." ResearchGate. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  3. "Fossilworks: Solemys". fossilworks.org. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. Csiki-Sava, Zoltán; Buffetaut, Eric; Ősi, Attila; Pereda-Suberbiola, Xabier; Brusatte, Stephen L. (2015-01-08). "Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography, evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late Cretaceous European archipelago". ZooKeys (469): 1–161. doi:10.3897/zookeys.469.8439. PMC 4296572. PMID 25610343.
  5. P. Matheron. 1869. Notice sur les reptiles fossiles des dépôts fluvio-lacustres crétacés du bassin à lignite de Fuveau . Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, et Arts de Marseille 1868–1869:345-379
  6. F. d.e. Lapparent de Broin and X. Murelaga. 1996. Une nouvelle faune de chéloniens dans le Crétacé supérieur européen. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris 323:729-735
Pantestudines
Sauropsida
Pantestudines
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Pantestudines
Pantestudines
Testudinata
Australochelyidae
Meiolaniformes
Meiolaniidae
Sichuanchelyidae
Helochelydridae
Compsemydidae
Paracryptodira
Pleurosternidae
Baenidae
Xinjiangchelyidae
Sinemydidae /
Macrobaenidae
Thalassochelydia
(sensu Joyce et al., 2021)
"Eurysternidae"
"Plesiochelyidae"
Sandownidae
Testudines
Pappochelys rosinae Meiolania brevicollis
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