| Notochelone Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| Type specimen, partial carapace | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | † Protostegidae |
| Genus: | † Notochelone Lydekker, 1889 |
| Type species | |
| †Notochelys costata Owen, 1882 | |
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Notochelone is an extinct genus of sea turtle, which existed about 100 million years ago. [1] The species was first described by Richard Owen in 1882 as Notochelys costata. It was renamed by Richard Lydekker in 1889. [2] [3] It was the most common marine reptile living in the inlands of the sea around Queensland, Australia. [4] It was small turtle with carapace less than 1 metre (3.3 ft). [5] [1] Analytical studies have indicated that the creatures frequently ate benthic molluscs. [6]
