Apertotemporalis Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Restoration based on Galianemys | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | † Bothremydidae |
Genus: | †
Apertotemporalis Stromer, 1934 |
Species: | †A. baharijensis
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Binomial name | |
†Apertotemporalis baharijensis
Stromer, 1934
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Apertotemporalis was an extinct genus of bothremydid [1] turtle that lived during the Late Cretaceous. The type species A. baharijensis was named in 1934 by Ernst Stromer for a specimen, NR 1912 VIII 93, consisting only of a fragmentary skull destroyed on the night of April 23/24, 1944, during World War II. [2] [3] [4] No more remains have been found since. The specimen was found in the Bahariya Formation of Egypt. [4]
Apertotemporalis Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Restoration based on Galianemys | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | † Bothremydidae |
Genus: | †
Apertotemporalis Stromer, 1934 |
Species: | †A. baharijensis
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Binomial name | |
†Apertotemporalis baharijensis
Stromer, 1934
|
Apertotemporalis was an extinct genus of bothremydid [1] turtle that lived during the Late Cretaceous. The type species A. baharijensis was named in 1934 by Ernst Stromer for a specimen, NR 1912 VIII 93, consisting only of a fragmentary skull destroyed on the night of April 23/24, 1944, during World War II. [2] [3] [4] No more remains have been found since. The specimen was found in the Bahariya Formation of Egypt. [4]