Carolinochelys

Carolinochelys
Temporal range: Middle Oligocene,
Carolinachelys wilsoni skull and shell at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Cheloniidae
Genus: †Carolinochelys
Hay, 1923
Species:
†C. wilsoni
Binomial name
†Carolinochelys wilsoni
Hay, 1923

Carolinochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from Oligocene of the eastern United States. It contains one species: C. wilsoni, and was first named by O.P. Hay in 1923. It is known from South Carolina, where it is known from the late Rupelian-aged Ashley Formation and the early Chattian-aged Chandler Bridge Formation, as well as from the late Rupelian-aged Old Church Formation of Virginia.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Weems, Robert E.; Sanders, Albert E. (2014). "Oligocene pancheloniid sea turtles from the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 80–99. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.792826. ISSN 0272-4634. Archived from the original on 2025-07-31.
  2. ^ Weems, Robert E. (2014-05-27). "Paleogene chelonians from Maryland and Virginia". PaleoBios. 31 (1). doi:10.5070/P9311022744. ISSN 0031-0298.
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