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A new genus and species, Cryptohelops menaticus gen. et sp. n., are described from the Palaeocene of Menat (France). The new genus belongs to the subtribe Helopina of the tribe Helopini (subfamily Tenebrioninae of Tenebrionidae) based on the coarse and dense punctation of the hypomera, shape of the prosternum and metepisterna, a similar appearance to the native genera Helops and Stenohelops and the...
A relatively complete shell of a turtle, recently found in the Tithonian (Freixial Formation) of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal), is presented and described here. Its taxonomic adscription and systematic position are discussed in this paper. This turtle is identified as a basal member of Eucryptodira. Other basal representatives of this group, all of them attributed to Plesiochelyidae, had previously...
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