Genus: Pappochelys SCHOCH & SUES, 2015
Etymology: Greek, pappos, "grandfather" and Greek, chelys, "turtle."
Species: rosinae SCHOCH & SUES,
2015
Etymology: In honor of I. Rosin, who prepared key specimens of the new taxon.
Holotype: SMNS 92360
Locality: Schumann Quarry, Eschenau, Vellberg municipality, Baden-Württemberg State, Germany.
Horizon: Top of Untere Graue Mergel, Lower Keuper, Erfurt Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Longobardian, Ladinian Stage, Upper Mid Triassic Epoch, Middle Triassic.
Material: Disarticulated skeleton with incomplete skull.
Paratype:
SMNS 90013: Disarticulated skeleton with incomplete skull.
Referred material:
SMNS 91113, 91115: 2 partial postcranial skeletons.
SMNS 91120: Partial skeleton.
SMNS 91272: Partial postcranial skeleton.
SMNS 91356: Partial skull and postcranial sksleton.
SMNS 92357: Partial postcranial skeleton of large individual.
SMNS 91413: Left maxilla.
SMNS 91895: Partial postcranial skeleton.
SMNS 91961: Partial postcranial skeleton.
SMNS 91967-919168: 1 isolated trunk ribs.
SMNS 92044: Right scapula.
SMNS 92063: Partial skeleton of small individuals (ribs, gastralia, maxilla).
SMNS 92064: Distarticulated pelvic girdle and vertebrae.
SMNS 92065: Disarticulated postcranial sksleton of small individual (ribs, gastralia, pelvis).
SMNS 92066: Disarticulated remains of very small individual (dentary, frontal, jugla, prefrontal, gastralia, femur and tibia.
SMNS 92067-92069: 3 isolated trunk ribs.
HARIDY, WITZMANN, ASBACH, SCHOCH, FROBISCH, & ROTHSCHILD, 2019
SMNS 91680: Femur. Note: Paleopatholgy, osteosarcoma/cancer).