A strange new chelonioid turtle from the Latest Cretaceous Phosphates of Morocco

摘要: Abstract A new genus and species of huge marine turtle (superfamily Chelonioidea, epifamily Dermochelyoidae) is described from the Maastrichtian Phosphates Oulad Abdoun Basin Morocco. type feeding apparatus, adapted for a powerful crushing pattern, illustrates noteworthy diversity fossil vertebrates Maastrichtian-Ypresian No other cryptodire or bothremydid pleurodire has this morphology. During Maastrichtian, known pattern chelonioids was different, close to that modern cheloniids, as illustrated in Morocco Ganntour Palaeogene Basin. This taxon exhibits unusual cranial characters (fusion premaxillae associated with backward dorsal retraction naris, horizontal stretching meatus quadrati), are shared only another turtle, also same