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Peritresius

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Peritresius
Temporal range: Campanian–Maastrichtian
P. martini holotype carapace
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Chelonioidea
Family: Ctenochelyidae
Genus: Peritresius
Baird, 1964
Type species
Chelone ornata
Leidy, 1856
Species[1]
  • P. ornatus
    (Leidy, 1856)
  • P. martini
    Gentry et al., 2018

Peritresius is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous deposits in the US Eastern Seaboard.

Taxonomy

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Two species are known, Peritresius ornatus (Leidy, 1856) and P. martini Gentry, Parham, Ehret, and Ebersole, 2018, both from Campanian-Maastrichtian age deposits in New Jersey, Alabama, and Mississippi.[2][1]

Phylogeny

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Below is a cladogram from the analysis of Gentry, Ebersole & Kiernan, 2019:[3]

Pan-Chelonioidea

References

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  1. ^ a b Gentry, A. D.; Parham, J. F.; Ehret, D. J.; Ebersole, J. A. (2018). "A New Species of Peritresius Leidy, 1856 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alabama, USA, and the Occurrence of the Genus within the Mississippi Embayment of North America". PLOS ONE. 13 (4): e0195651. Bibcode:2018PLoSO..1395651G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195651. PMC 5906092. PMID 29668704.
  2. ^ Leidy J. Notices of remains of extinct turtles of New Jersey collected by Professor Cook of the State Geological Survey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Science, Philadelphia. 1856; 8: 303–304.
  3. ^ Gentry, A.D.; Ebersole, J.A.; Kiernan, C.R. (2019). "Asmodochelys parhami, a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies". Royal Society Open Science. 6 (12): Article ID 191950. Bibcode:2019RSOS....691950G. doi:10.1098/rsos.191950. PMC 6936288. PMID 31903219.