Fontainechelon

Fontainechelon Temporal range: Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Cryptodira
Superfamily:	Testudinoidea
Family:	Testudinidae
Genus:	†Fontainechelon Pérez-García et. al., 2016

Fontainechelon is an extinct genus of testudinid that lived in France during the Early Eocene. It is known from a single species, F. cassouleti.[1]

References

1. Pérez-García, Adán; Ortega, Francisco; Jiménez Fuentes, Emiliano (July 2016). "Taxonomy, systematics, and diversity of the European oldest testudinids". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 177 (3): 648–675. doi:10.1111/zoj.12381. Retrieved 3 October 2024 – via Oxford Academic.