Uluops
| Uluops Temporal range: LateJurassic
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Paracryptodira |
| Family: | †Pleurosternidae |
| Genus: | †Uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 |
| Species: | †U. uluops
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| Binomial name | |
| †Uluops uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
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Uluopsis anextinctgenusofparacryptodireturtlefrom theLate Jurassic(Tithonian) of North America. Thetypeand only species isUluops uluops,which is known from a single skull from theMorrison Formation.[1][2]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^"Fossilworks: Uluops".
- ^Rollot, Y.; Evers, S. W.; Joyce, W. G. (2021)."A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtleUluops uluopsand a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira ".Swiss Journal of Palaeontology.140(1): 23.doi:10.1186/s13358-021-00234-y.PMC8550081.
Further reading
[edit]- K. Carpenter and R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part II. A new baenid turtle. Hunteria 2(6):3-4
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