Achelonia

Achelonia
Temporal range: Late Jurassic Kimmeridgian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Family: Eurysternidae
Genus: Achelonia
Meyer, 1860
Species
  • A. formosa Meyer, 1860
Synonyms
  • Enaliochelys chelonia Seeley, 1869

Achelonia is an extinct genus of marine thalassochelydian turtle. Its type species is Achelonia formosa. Fossils are known from the Upper Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian) of Wattendorf, Germany, Cerin, France, and England. Material from England was originally considered to belong to the separate genus Enaliochelys and species Enaliochelys chelonia, named by Harry Govier Seeley in 1869 for a partial disarticulated skeleton from the early Kimmeridgian of the Kimmeridge Clay in Cambridgeshire. The synonymy was recognised in 2020.



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