Chitracephalus Dollo, 1885

Pérez-García, Adán, 2012, The European Early Cretaceous cryptodiran turtle Chitracephalus dumonii and the diversity of a poorly known lineage of turtles, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (3), pp. 575-588 : 577

Genus Chitracephalus Dollo, 1885

2003 Salasemys ; Fuentes Vidarte, Meijide Calvo, and Meijide Fuentes

2003.

Type species: Chitracephalus dumonii Dollo, 1885 ; Bernissart , Belgium, Barremian–Aptian. Monotypic .

Diagnosis.—The same as for the species; see below.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Lower Cretaceous of Western Europe ( Dollo 1885; Martín−Closas and Alonso Millán 1998; Fuentes Vidarte et al. 2003; Dejax et al. 2007; Schnyder et al. 2009; Pérez−García et al. 2010a).