NEW SPECIES OF JURASIC TURTLE FOUND IN PORTUGAL

A shell found a couple of years ago in the Portuguese beach of Porto do Barril de Mafra belongs to a new species of a portuguese turtle from late jurassic. Called Hylaeochelys kappa, lived more than 145 million years ago and is the oldest representative of the genus, and also the only turtle  from the european jurassic at the moment.

via Agencia Sinc (en español)

The Hispaniachelys prebetica is the oldest turtle in the Iberian Peninsula. It's a new species cataloged, who lived in the Jurassic  155 million years ago in the Sierra de Cazorla (Jaén).

Synopsis reptilium : or short descriptions of the species of reptiles. Part I., Cataphracta. Tortoises, crocodiles, and enaliosaurians by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.