Genus: Rhinochelys SEELEY, 1869 emend. COLLINS, 1970
Etymology:

Species: pulchriceps (OWEN, 1851)
Etymology:
= Chelone pulchriceps OWEN, 1851

Holotype: CAMSM B55775 (BMNH R793?)

Locality: Barnwell, near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Cambridge Greensand Member, West Mulbury Marly Chalk Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Cenomanian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Lowermost Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Skull lacking lower jaw.

Referred material:

B 55775, Sedgwick Museum.

BMNH R2916:

COLLINS 1970

BMNH 2224: Skull.

BMNH R 1806: Skull.

BMNH 2236:

BMNH R 2232:

BMNH 46373:

BMNH R 2238:

BMNH R 35184:

BMNH R 35185:

BMNH 47211:

BMNH 49920:

BMNH R 793:

SM B 55771:

SM B 55772:

SM B 55779:

SM B 55811:

EVERS, BARRETT & BENSON, 2019

CAMSM B55771-55774, B55776, B77779-55788, B55791-55796, B55798-55800, B55811, B56274, B56397, B56570-56576, B56578, B56580, B56582, IRSNB GS63-65, IRSNB GS67-68, IRNSB GS70, NHMUK PV R27, R1558, R1806, R2224-2237, R8339, R11521, OR35193-35197, OR41796, OR43980, OR46371, OR46271A, OR47206: Skulls.

CAMSM B55809-55810, B55819, B56590, B56493, B59560, NHMUK PV R2238-2239, R2916, OR35183, OR35185a, OR46373-46374, OR49919-49920: Mandibles.

 

Locality: France.

Horizon: Marnes Bleues Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Aptian Stage, Lower Gallic Subepoch, Middle Early Cretaceous Epoch-Age: Lower Cenomanian Stage, Middle Gallic Epoch, Lowermost Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

= Rhinochelys dacognathus SEELEY, 1869
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= Rhinochelys elegans LYDEKKER, 1889
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH 2226

Locality: Near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Cambridge Greensand.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Cenomanian Stage, Middle Gallic Epoch, Lowermost Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Skull lacking lower jaw.

Referred material:

BMNH R8339:

COLLINS 1970

BMNH 41796:

BMNH 46371:

BMNH 46371a:

BMNH 35194:

BMNH 35197:

BMNH R 27:

BMNH R 2228:

BMNH R 2229:

BMNH R 2230:

BMNH R 2231:

BMNH R 2237:

BMNH 35195:

SM B 55773:

SM B 55776: Skull and mandible.

SM B 55780:

SM B 55784:

SM B 55792:

SM B 55798:

SM B 55800:


BENTON & SPENCER, 1995

Locality: East Wear Bay, Folkestone, (TR 243366), Kent County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower-Upper Gault.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Uppermost Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

BMNH R27: Skull.

Number: Not given: Carapace, plasteron elements and limb bones.

 

= Rhinochelys mastocephalus SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Skull.

 

= Rhinochelys stenicephalus SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Skull.


= Rhinochelys brachyrhina LYDEKKER, 1889
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Holotype: BMNH R 2225

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Material: Fragmentary skull.

 

= Rhinochelys macrorhina LYDEKKER, 1889
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Holotype: BMNH R 35193

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Material: Fragmentary skull.

 

= Rhinochelys cantabrigiensis LYDEKKER, 1889
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH 43980

Locality: Near Cambridge, Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Lower Cambridge Greensand.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Cenomanian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Lowermost Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material: Skull lacking lower jaws.

Referred material:

COLLINS, 1970

BMNH R 1558:

BMNH R 2233:

BMNH R 2234:

BMNH 35196:

SM B 55774:

SM B 55781:

SM B 55782:

SM B 55783:

SM B 55785:

SM B 55786:

SM B 55787:

SM B 55788:

SM B 55791: Skull and mandible.

SM B 55793:

SM B 55795:

SM B 55799:

SM B 56572:

SM B 56573:

SM B 56574:

SM B 56576:

SM B 56580:

 

= Rhinochelys jessoni (LYDEKKER, 1889)
= Chelone jessoni LYDEKKER, 1889
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R 2227

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Material: Fragmentary skull.

Refered material

LYDEKKER, 1889

Localty: Flokestone, Kent County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Gault.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

BMNH 47209: Imprfect palatal region of teh cranium of a very large turtle.

Localty: England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Cambridgeshire Greensand.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

BMNH R. 1497: Cast of the symphysis of a mandible.

BMNH 35203: Imperfect proximal extremity of a small left humerus.

BMNH 35205: The proximal extremity of a smaller left humerus.

BMNH 35206: The proximity of a smaller humerus.

BMNH 35385: The centrum of a posterior cervical vertebra.

BMNH 35186 b: The symphysis.

BMNH 46372: Imperfect mandibular symphysis.

 

Localty: Halling, Kent County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon: Chalk.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Cretaceous.

Material:

BMNH 39114: Imperfect mandible.

BMNH 41672: Symphysis and part of left ramus of a mandible.

 

= Rhinochelys cardiocephalus SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Skull.

 

= Rhinochelys dayi SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Skull.

 

= Rhinochelys eurycephalus SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Skull.

 

= Rhinochelys platyrhinus SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Skull.

 

= Rhinochelys rheporhinus SEELEY, 1869
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Material: Fragmentary skull.

 

= Rhinochelys sphenicephalus SEELEY, 1869
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= Rhinochelys amaberti MORET, 1935
Etymology:

Holotype: UJF-ID.11167

Locality: Villard-de-Lans, Isere Department, France.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: Stoliczkaia dispar zone.

Age: Late Albian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Uppermost Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary shell.

 

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Species: nammourensis TONG, HIRAYAMA, MAKHOUL & ESCUILLE, 2006
Etymology: In reference to Nammoura, Lebanon, the locality where the turtle was discovered.

Holotype: MSNM V3933

Locality: Nammoura, Lebanon.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Cenomanian Cenomanian Stage, Middle Gallic Subepoch, Lowermost Gulf Epoch, Middle Cretaceous.

Material: An almost complete skeleton.

Note: With soft tissue impression and scales.

Hypodigm:

Private collection of E. Makhoule, Lebanon:

Ntu-1a & b: Skeleton of a neonate on two slabs.

Ntu-2: Fragment of carapace with two neurals and two costals.

Ntu-3: Incomplete plastron.

Ntu-4: Flipper.

Ntu-6: nearly complete carapace.

Ntu-7, Ntu-8: 2 neonate skeletons.

Private collection of F. Escuillie, France:

ESC-2: Skeleton of an adult with nearly complete carapace, forelimbs, partial hindlimbs, neck and tail, lacking skull.

ESC-2: Neonate skeleton.