Peckemys Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | Testudinata |
Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
Family: | † Baenidae |
Genus: | †
Peckemys Lyson and Joyce, 2009 |
Type species | |
Peckemys brinkman Lyson and Joyce, 2009
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Peckemys is an extinct genus of baenid turtle which existed in the Hell Creek Formation, United States during the late Cretaceous period ( Maastrichtian age). [1] It was first named by Tyler R. Lyson and Walter G. Joyce in 2009 and the type species is Peckemys brinkman. [1]