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{{Short description|Extinct genus of turtles}}
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| fossil_range = Late [[Jurassic]] {{fossil range|150.8|145.5}}
| image = M741033.png
| image_caption = 3D render of the skull
| display_parents = 2
| genus = Uluops
| parent_authority = Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
| species = uluops
| authority = Carpenter and Bakker, 1990
}}
'''''Uluops''''' is an [[extinct]] [[genus]] of [[paracryptodire]] [[turtle]] from the [[Late Jurassic]] ([[Tithonian]]) of North America. The [[type species|type]] and only species is ''Uluops uluops'', which is known from a single skull from the [[Morrison Formation]].<ref name="Fossilworks" /><ref name="Rollot2021" />
==See also==
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* [[Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation]]
==References==
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<ref name="Fossilworks">{{Cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57642|title = Fossilworks: Uluops}}</ref>
<ref name="Rollot2021">{{cite journal |last1=Rollot |first1=Y. |last2=Evers |first2=S. W. |last3=Joyce |first3=W. G. |title=A redescription of the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) turtle ''Uluops uluops'' and a new phylogenetic hypothesis of Paracryptodira |journal=[[Swiss Journal of Palaeontology]] |date=2021 |volume=140 |issue=1 |pages=23 |doi=10.1186/s13358-021-00234-y|doi-access=free |pmc=8550081 }}</ref>
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==Further reading==
*K. Carpenter and R. T. Bakker. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology. Part II. A new baenid turtle. Hunteria 2(6):3-4
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[[Category:Pleurosternidae]]
[[Category:Prehistoric turtle genera]]
[[Category:Tithonian genera]]
[[Category:Late Jurassic turtles]]
[[Category:Late Jurassic reptiles of North America]]
[[Category:Morrison fauna]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1990]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Kenneth Carpenter]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Robert T. Bakker]]
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