''Idiochelys'' is a genus of

Late Jurassic The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 163.5 ± 1.0 to 145.0 ± 0.8 million years ago (Ma), which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata.Owen 1987. In European lithostratigraphy, the name ...

turtle from marine deposits in the

Jura Mountains The Jura Mountains ( , , , ; french: Massif du Jura; german: Juragebirge; it, Massiccio del Giura, rm, Montagnas da Jura) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the Frenc ...

of eastern France and Bavaria, Germany. ''Idiochelys wagneri'', ''Chelonemys plana'', and ''Chelonemys ovata'' are junior synonyms, the latter two being described from specimens in the Ain Department of southeastern France. Distinguishing features of ''Idiochelys'' include an oval/rounded carapace, broad vertebrals, a long tail, and a reduced manual phalangeal formula (2-2-3-3-3).Anquetin, J., Puntener, C., and Joyce, W.G., 2017. A review of the fossil record of turtles of the clade Thalassochelydia. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 (2):317-369. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3374/014.058.0205

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Thalassochelydia Prehistoric turtle genera Kimmeridgian genera Tithonian genera Late Jurassic turtles Late Jurassic reptiles of Europe Jurassic France Fossils of France Jurassic Germany Fossils of Germany Fossil taxa described in 1839 Taxa named by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer {{paleo-turtle-stub