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Angolachelys 
Summary
Angolachelys is an extinct genus of African marine turtle which existed in Angola during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The type species is Angolachelys mbaxi.[1] The type MGUAN-PA includes skull, jaw, and postcranial fragments found in the Tadi Beds of the Itombe Formation.
| Angolachelys Temporal range: Turonian
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| Skull in multiple views | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Sandownidae |
| Genus: | †Angolachelys Mateus et al., 2009 |
| Species: | †A. mbaxi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Angolachelys mbaxi Mateus et al., 2009
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Phylogeny edit
Cladogram after Mateus et al. (2009).[1]
| Eucryptodira |
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References edit
- ^ a b Octávio Mateus; Louis Jacobs; Michael Polcyn; Anne S. Schulp; Diana Vineyard; André Buta Neto; Miguel Telles Antunes (2009). "The oldest African eucryptodiran turtle from the Cretaceous of Angola" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 54 (4): 581–588. doi:10.4202/app.2008.0063. S2CID 55919209.