Uluops
{{Short description|Extinct genus of turtles}}
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| fossil_range = Late Jurassic {{fossil range|150.8|145.5}}
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| genus = Uluops
| parent_authority = Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
| species = uluops
| authority = Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
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Uluops is an extinct genus of paracryptodire turtle from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of North America. The type and only species is Uluops uluops, which is known from a single skull from the Morrison Formation.
See also
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References
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{{cite journal |last1=Rollot |first1=Y. |last2=Evers |first2=S. W. |last3=Joyce |first3=W. G. |title=A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle Uluops uluops and a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira |journal=Swiss Journal of Palaeontology |date=2021 |volume=140 |issue=1 |pages=23 |doi=10.1186/s13358-021-00234-y|doi-access=free |pmid=34721284 |pmc=8550081 |bibcode=2021SwJP..140...23R }}
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Further reading
- K. Carpenter and R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part II. A new baenid turtle. Hunteria 2(6):3-4
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Category:Prehistoric turtle genera
Category:Late Jurassic turtles
Category:Late Jurassic reptiles of North America
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1990
Category:Taxa named by Kenneth Carpenter
Category:Taxa named by Robert T. Bakker
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