Uluops Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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3D render of the skull | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Family: | † Pleurosternidae |
Genus: | † Uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 |
Species: | †U. uluops |
Binomial name | |
†Uluops uluops Carpenter and Bakker, 1990 | |
Uluops is an extinct genus of paracryptodire turtle from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of North America. The type and only species is Uluops uluops, which is known from a single skull from the Morrison Formation. [1] [2]