Genus: Larachelus PEREZ-GARCIA & MURELAGA, 2012b
Etymology: The generic name refers to "Los siete infantes de Lara" ('The Seven Infants of Lara'), a famous medieval Castilian romance for which is derived thename fo the town of Salas de los Infantes, and Greek, chelus, "turtle."

Species: morla PEREZ-GARCIA & MURELAGA, 2012b
Etymology: In reference to 'Morla,' a fictional swamp turtle with a high carapace (the 'Tortoise Shell Mountain') from the fantsay novel 'Die unendliche Gesihichte' ('The Neverending Story') by Michael Ende (1979)

Holotype: MDS-MPBS-6

Locality: Monte Puente Ballesta site, Salas de los Infantes, Burogos Province, western Cameros Basin, Iberian Range, Spain.

Horizon: Pinilla de los Moros Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Hauterivian Stage, Upper Neocomian Subepoch-Lower Barremain Stage, Lower Gallic Subepoch, Lower Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Left ilium and a partial carpace preserving the fourth and sixth neural plates, the fourth to eighth left, fifth and sixth right, and the distal region of the seventh and eigth right costals, the suprapygal, the pygal, the second, fourth to seventh, and ninth to eleventh left peripherals, the second, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and eleventh right periphearals, the right epiplastron, both hypoplastr, the right hypoplastron, and the left xiphiplastron.