Genus: Eileanchelys ANQUETIN, MARRETT, JONES, MOORE-FAY & EVANS,
2008
Etymology: Elean from the Scottish Gaelic word for island, and Greek, chelys,
"turtle."
Species: waldmani ANQUETIN, MARRETT, JONES, MOORE-FAY & EVANS,
2008
Etymology: In honor of Dr. Michael Waldman, co-discoverer of the Cladach a'Ghlinne
locality (together with the late Prof. R. J. G. Savage) and the person responsible
for introducing one of us (S.E.E) to the site.
Holotype: NMS G 2004.31.15
Locality: Foreshore at the mouth of Cladach a'Ghlinne, Strathaird Peninsula, Isle of Skyre, Highland Province, Inverness-Shire County, Scotland.
Horizon: Kilmalung Formation, Great Estuarine Group.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Bathonian Stage, upper middle Dogger Epoch, Middle Jurassic.
Material: A partial skull.
Paratypes:
NMS G 2004.31.16a: Partial shell missing part of the left side of the plastron, with poorly presered cervical vertebrae and a partial shoulder girdle.
NMS G 2004.31.16b: A complete shell, with poorly preserved caudal vertebrae and a partial right hindlimb.
NMS G 2004.31.16c: A nearly complete carapace.
NMS G 2004.31.16d: Anterior part of a shell and skull.
NMS G 2004.31.16e: A fragmentd skull consiting of he skull rof and part of the anterior palatal area.
Note: May belong to NMS G 2004.31.6c.
NMS G 2004.31.16f: A complete crushed skull.
Referred material:
ANQUETIN, 2010
NMS.G.1992.47.8 (Waldman collection): A block of matrix containign shell fragments, a partial pelvis, and incomplete hindlimb (Tibia and fragments of a fibula).
NMS.G.1992.47.27 (Evans & Waldman collection): A small bridge peripheral.
NMS.G.1992.47.38 (Evans & Waldman collection): An isolated fragment of costal plate.
NMS.G.1992.47.50 (Waldman collection): An anterior part of plastron with some carapce fragments.
NMS.G.1992.47.51 (Evans & Waldman collection): An isolated left humerus.
NMS.G.2004.31.16g: A series of 7 more or less complete cervical vertebrae.
NMS.G.2004.31.16h: A partial forelimb with the ulna, radius and possibly the distal part of the humerus.
NMS.G.2004.31.17: An isolated left pubis.
NMS.G.2004.31.18: An isolated row of bridge peripherals.