Alternative combination: Proganochelys quenstedti
Synonyms: Psammochelys keuperina Quenstedt 1889 [objective synonym], Stegochelys dux Jaekel 1914, Triassochelys dux Jaekel 1914
Full reference: G. Baur. 1887. Über den Ursprung der Extremitäten der Ichthyopterygia. Berichte über de Versammlungen des Oberrheinischen Vereines 20:17-20
Belongs to Proganochelys according to T. M. Scheyer et al. 2022
See also Danilov and Parham 2008, Fraas 1899, Gaffney 1990, Joyce 2017, Kuhn 1971, Perea et al. 2014, Pérez-García and Murelaga 2013, Pérez-García and Ortega 2011 and Quenstedt 1889
Sister taxa: Proganochelys ruchae, Proganochelys tenertesta
Type specimens:
- Proganochelys quenstedtii: GPIT RE/09396, a partial shell (Internal mold (steinkern) of shell). Its type locality is Schönbuch bei Häfner-Neuhausen, which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.
- Psammochelys keuperina: GPIT unnumbered, a set of postcrania (Internal mold (steinkern) of shell).
- Stegochelys dux: MB.1910.45.2, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt (bed 18), which is in a Rhaetian floodplain claystone/sandstone in the Trossingen Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (4 collections), Switzerland (1)
Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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