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Peritresius

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Peritresius
Temporal range: Campanian–Maastrichtian
P. martini holotype carapace
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
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. 1 2 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) 191950. Bibcode:2019RSOS....691950G. doi:10.1098/rsos.191950. PMC 6936288. PMID 31903219.