''Mexichelys'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
monotypic genus of
sea turtle which lived in
Mexico during the
Cretaceous. The only species is ''Mexichelys coahuilaensis''.
''Mexichelys'' was erected in 2010 as a replacement name for ''
Euclastes
''Euclastes'' is an extinct genus of sea turtles that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. The genus was first named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1867, and contains three species. ''E. hutchisoni'', was named in 2003 but has since b ...
coahuilaensis'', a species named in 2009.
based on Lynch and Parham (2003)
and Parham and Pyenson (2010):
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References
External links
''Mexichelys''
in the Paleobiology Database
{{Cheloniidae
Late Cretaceous turtles of North America
Cheloniidae
Fossil taxa described in 2010
Fossils of Mexico
Prehistoric turtle genera
Extinct turtles
Monotypic prehistoric reptile genera