Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-245-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-245-2017
Research article
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11 Oct 2017
Research article |  | 11 Oct 2017

Identification of the African–European Erymnochelys group (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae) in the Belgian fossil record: first finding of Eocenochelus eremberti outside its type locality

Adán Pérez-García and Thierry Smith

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A partial carapace of a turtle from the middle Eocene of Saint-Gilles is presented here. Although it was donated to the Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Brussels, Belgium) more than a century ago, it remained undescribed. Its study allows us to recognize the second pleurodiran turtle in the Belgian fossil record. It is the first partial articulate shell of a pleurodiran recognized in Belgium, and the only member of this clade recognized in this country at specific level.