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A NEW species of leathery, or leather-back, turtle from the Miocene of Maryland is described by Mr. W. Palmer in No. 1669 of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum under the name of Psephophorus calvertensis, this being the first representative of the genus, which was previously known from the Tertiaries of Europe and Egypt, hitherto recorded from American deposits. It is, however, pointed out that certain dermal armour from the Zeuglo-dont Limestone of North America, figured by Müller in his work on Zeuglodon, probably belongs to the same genus.
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Papers on Reptiles and Fishes . Nature 81, 203–204 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081203b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/081203b0