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Peltochelys
Taxonomy
Peltochelys was named by Dollo (1884). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Trionychia by Joyce et al. (2004); to Cryptodira by Danilov and Parham (2008); to Trionychoidea by Meylan (1988) and Pérez-García (2011); to Peltochelyidae by Karl et al. (2012); and to Compsemydidae by Joyce and Rollot (2020).
It was assigned to Trionychia by Joyce et al. (2004); to Cryptodira by Danilov and Parham (2008); to Trionychoidea by Meylan (1988) and Pérez-García (2011); to Peltochelyidae by Karl et al. (2012); and to Compsemydidae by Joyce and Rollot (2020).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1884 | Peltochelys Dollo |
| 1988 | Peltochelys Meylan fig. 1 |
| 2004 | Peltochelys Joyce et al. |
| 2008 | Peltochelys Danilov and Parham |
| 2011 | Peltochelys Pérez-García |
| 2012 | Peltochelys Karl et al. |
| 2020 | Peltochelys Joyce and Rollot |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| W. G. Joyce and Y. Rollot 2020 | Peltochelys duchastelii can be diagnosed as a representative of Compsemydidae, a clade of paracryptodires, by the presence of a finely textured shell, a sutured bridge, and a sinuous plastral midline sulcus; absence of a contact between peripheral 1 and costal 1; and the withdrawal of the nuchal from the anterior margin of the shell resulting from a midline contact of peripherals 1 |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Aptian or 155.70000 to 122.46000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kimmeridgian | Portugal (Leiria) | P. duchastelli (24563) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian | Portugal | P. duchastelli (138303) | |
| Berriasian | Germany (Lower Saxony) | P. duchastelli (138301) | |
| Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | Belgium (Sauerland) | P. duchastelii, Chelonii indet. (22645) |