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Notochelone costata
Taxonomy
Notochelys costata was named by Owen (1882). Its type specimen is Sydney Museum specimen (cast in BMNH R77), a partial skeleton (imperfect shell with pectoral and limb bones), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Notochelone type, Flinder's River region [PROXY], which is in an Albian marine horizon in Australia. It is the type species of Notochelys.
It was recombined as Notochelone costata by Lydekker (1889), Gaffney (1981), Fordyce (1991), Poropat et al. (2023).
It was recombined as Notochelone costata by Lydekker (1889), Gaffney (1981), Fordyce (1991), Poropat et al. (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1882 | Notochelys costata Owen |
| 1889 | Notochelone costata Lydekker p. 70 |
| 1981 | Notochelone costata Gaffney |
| 1991 | Notochelone costata Fordyce p. 1173 |
| 2023 | Notochelone costata Poropat et al. p. 153 |
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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.
†Notochelone costata Owen 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004, Uetz 2005, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Albian or 106.30000 to 100.50000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Albian | Australia (Queensland) | Notochelone costata (64811 238631 238632) Notochelys costata (198220) |