Globochelus is an extinct genus of plesiochelyid turtle that inhabited France during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch. It is known from a single species, G. lennieri.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Plesiochelyidae |
| Genus: | †Globochelus De Lapparent de Bloin et. al., 2021 |
References
edit- ^ de Lapparent de Broin, France; Breton, Gérard; Rioult, Michel (January–March 2021). "Les tortues du Mésozoïque du Havre (France), révisions, définition de Globochelus lennieri n. g. n. sp. et nouvelles données sur Tropidemys langii, Plesiochelyidae". Annales de Paléontologie (in French). 107 (1): 102447. Bibcode:2021AnPal.10702447D. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2020.102447. Retrieved 3 October 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.