Talk:Psephophorus

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 * "develop some fragments of bones". This is too opaque to edit. In what sense of "develop"?--Wetman (talk) 04:57, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, so this question has been here unanswered by its author for almost 30 days. Probably simply copied from the source without any understanding.  I'll just delete it.  --Blechnic (talk) 01:39, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

DYK hook
The DYK hook that this talk page mentions is about "that the extinct sea turtle Psephophorus was once mistaken as an ancient armadillo due to the specimen's poor condition?" Where is this from? Why was it deleted from the article? I suppose it's just trivia. --Blechnic (talk) 01:42, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

New source reference
species of the fossil turtle Psephophorus terrypratchetti. (1995)

A new species of the fossil turtle Psephophorus (Order Testudines) from the Eocene of the South Island, New Zealand. (named after Terry Pratchett)

Etymology: In honour of the British novelist Terry Pratchett, whose wonderful style and great sense of humour, combined with his deep affection for turtles, merits the naming of this new species after him.

http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/site/publish/journals/jrsnz/1995/44.aspx

http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/includes/download.aspx?ID=85093

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand abstracts

A new species of the fossil turtle Psephophorus (Order Testudines) from the Eocene of the South Island, New Zealand. R. Köhler * Until now the genus Psephophorus has been known only from Tertiary sediments in Europe, Egypt and the United States. Five specimens from mid Eocene sediments near Waimate (South Canterbury) and one specimen from near Dunedin (Otago) comprise the only such records for the Southern Hemisphere, and are also among the oldest records worldwide. The differences between the New Zealand material and described species of Psephophorus are justification for the naming of the new species, Psephophorus terrypratchetti. Keywords: Order Testudines, Family Dermochelyidae, Southern Hemisphere, New Zealand, Eocene.

(c) Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand,

Volume 25, Number 3, September 1995, pp 371-384 --Ripvanwinkle111 164.156.231.55 (talk) 17:22, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Merge
I would suggest the article on P. terrypratchetti be merged into this article in the species section. There is very little different between the two articles at this point.-- Kev min  § 15:33, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support merge. It is standard convention (although not mandatory) to merge extinct species stubs to the genus article unless or until the individual species have been developed enough to warrant a split. Stegosaurus, one of the most well-known fossil genera, easily accompanies all species in a single article.--Animalparty-- (talk) 05:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. For reasons given above. Faendalimas  talk 10:35, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Of course. FunkMonk (talk) 18:02, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

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Images of species for this genus
I have added an image of Psephophorus californiensis based on morphological descriptions from journals. Michael (talk) 20:37, 20 March 2022 (UTC)