Asmodochelys is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous Demopolis Chalk of Alabama and Mississippi. It is known from the species A. parhami.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Chelonioidea |
| Family: | †Ctenochelyidae |
| Genus: | †Asmodochelys |
| Species: | †A. parhammi
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| †Asmodochelys parhammi Gentry et. al., 2019
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References
edit- ^ Gentry, Andrew D.; Ebersole, Jun A.; Kiernan, Caitlin R. (18 December 2019). "Asmodochelys parhami , a new fossil marine turtle from the Campanian Demopolis Chalk and the stratigraphic congruence of competing marine turtle phylogenies". Royal Society Open Science. 6 (12): 191950. doi:10.1098/rsos.191950. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 6936288. PMID 31903219. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
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