Carolinochelys

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

Carolinochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from Oligocene of United States. It contains one species: C. wilsoni, and was first named by O.P. Hay in 1923.

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