Yaminuechelys

Yaminuechelys; Temporal range: Late Santonian-Thanetian (Tiupampan); ~84.9–58.7 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Chelidae
Subfamily:	Hydromedusinae
Genus:	†Yaminuechelys; De la Fuente et al. 2001
Species
	Y. gasperinii De la Fuente et al. 2001; Y. maior Staesche 1929;

Short description: Extinct genus of turtles

Yaminuechelys is an extinct genus of chelid turtle from Argentina and the Dorotea Formation of Chile . The genus first appeared during the Late Cretaceous and became extinct during the Late Paleocene.^[2]

Species

The genus contains the following two species:

Y. gasperinii De la Fuente et al. 2001^[1] - Late Cretaceous Allen, Anacleto, La Colonia Formations, Argentina^[3]
Y. maior Staesche 1929^[3]^[4] - Tiupampan Salamanca and Roca Formations, Argentina

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 De la Fuente, M., F. Lapparent de Broin, and T. Manera de Bianco. 2001, The oldest and first nearly complete skeleton of a chelid, of the Hydromedusa sub-group (Chelidae, Pleurodira), from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Bullettin de la Société Géologique de France. 172:237–244.
↑ Bona, P. & De la Fuente, M. 2005. Phylogenetic and paleobiogeographic implications of Yaminuechelys major (Staesche, 1929) new comb., a large long-necked chelid turtle from the early Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):569–582.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Yaminuechelys at Fossilworks.org
↑ Staesche K. 1929. Schildkroteneste aus der oberen Kreide Patagoniens. Palaeontographica 72(1-6):103-123

Alarcón Muñoz, J., S. Soto-Acuña, L. M. E. Manríquez, R. A. Fernández, D. Bajor, J. P. Guevara, F. Suazo Lara, M. A. and A. O. Vargas. 2020. Freshwater turtles (Testudines: Pleurodira) in the Upper Cretaceous of Chilean Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences . . Accessed 2020-06-12.

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