Pneumatoarthrus

Pneumatoarthrus

Taxobox
name = "Pneumatoarthrus"
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
familia = Protostegidae
genus = "Pneumatoarthrus"
binomial = "Pneumatoarthrus peloreus"
binomial_authority = Cope, 1870

"Pneumatoarthrus" is a Cretaceous sea turtle first identified by Edward Drinker Cope as a hadrosaur in 1870. The fossils were found in the chalk beds of Kansas. It may be synonymous with the better known "Atlantochelys", and therefore a close relative of the giant sea turtle "Archelon".

External links

* http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/bib/hadrobib.htm

References

Baird, D., 1978. "Pneumatoarthrus" Cope, 1870, not a dinosaur but a sea-turtle. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 129(4):71-81.


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