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| name = ''Dorsetochelys''
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| fossil_range = Late [[Jurassic]]-[[Early Cretaceous {{fossil range|
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
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| ordo = [[Testudines]]
| genus = †'''''Dorsetochelys'''''
| genus_authority = Evans and Kemp, 1976
| species = delairi
| binomial = ''Dorsetochelys delairi''
| binomial_authority = Evans and Kemp, 1976
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'''''Dorsetochelys''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[turtle]]
==Taxonomy==
The type species, ''Dorsetochelys delairi'', was described on the basis of '''DORCM G.23''', a complete skull from the Early Cretaceous ([[Berriasian]]) [[Purbeck Group]] of [[Dorset]], [[England]].<ref>Evans and Kemp, 1976. A new turtle skull from the Purbeckian of England and a note on the early dichotomies of cryptodire turtles. Palaeontology, 19, 317–324.</ref> Later, a turtle skull from the vicinity of [[Como Bluff]], [[Wyoming]], was described as a new species, ''D. buzzops'', in honor of Buzz Pitman, a museum director of the Rock River Museum near Como Bluff.<ref>R. T. Bakker. 1998. Dinosaur mid-life crisis: the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in Wyoming and Colorado. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:67-77</ref>
==See also==
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