Eodortoka
Appearance
Eodortoka Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Family: | †Dortokidae |
Genus: | †Eodortoka |
Species: | †E. morellana
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Binomial name | |
†Eodortoka morellana Pérez-García et. al., 2014
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Eodortoka is an extinct genus of dortokid that lived during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Eodortoka morellana is known from the Arcillas de Morella Formation of Spain.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Pérez-García, Adán; Gasulla, J.M.; Ortega, F. (March 2014). "Eodortoka morellana gen. et sp. nov., the first pan-pleurodiran turtle (Dortokidae) defined in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe". Cretaceous Research. 48: 130–138. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.12.004. Retrieved 22 June 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.