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Peritresius
Temporal range: Campanian–Maastrichtian

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P. martini holotype carapace
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Clade: Pancheloniidae
Genus: Peritresius
Leidy, 1856

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

Taxonomy[edit]

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.[1][2]

Phylogeny[edit]

Peritresius in a cladogram from the analysis of Gentry et al., 2019:[3]

Pan-Chelonioidea

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  • ^ Gentry AD, Parham JF, Ehret DJ, Ebersole JA (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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195651
  • ^ Andrew D. Gentry; Jun A. Ebersole; Caitlin R. Kiernan (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.

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