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Mongolochelys

Reptilia

Taxonomy

Mongolochelys was named by Khosatzky (1997). Its type is Mongolochelys efremovi.

It was assigned to Mongolochelyidae by Sukhanov (2000); to Testudinata by Joyce (2007), Danilov and Parham (2008), Anquetin (2012) and Pérez-García and Murelaga (2013); to Meiolaniformes by Sterli and de la Fuente (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and Sterli et al. (2015); to Sichuanchelyidae by Joyce et al. (2016); and to Sichuanchelyidae by Joyce (2017).

Species

M. efremovi (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1997	Mongolochelys Khosatzky
2000	Mongolochelys Sukhanov p. 346
2007	Mongolochelys Joyce
2008	Mongolochelys Danilov and Parham
2012	Mongolochelys Anquetin p. 34 fig. 10
2013	Mongolochelys Pérez-García and Murelaga
2013	Mongolochelys Sterli and de la Fuente
2014	Mongolochelys de la Fuente et al.
2015	Mongolochelys Sterli et al.
2016	Mongolochelys Joyce et al.
2017	Mongolochelys Joyce

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Testudinata	(Oppel 1811)
—	Perichelydia
—	Sichuanchelyidae	()
genus	Mongolochelys

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.

G. †Mongolochelys Khosatzky 1997

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†Mongolochelys efremovi Khosatzky 1997

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Created:

2017-04-17 15:15:35

Modified:

2017-04-17 15:15:35

Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Maastrichtian	72.1 - 66.0	Mongolia (Omnogov)	M. efremovi (51972) M. sp. (55257 55258 108344 127670 127671 127673 127675 127679 127681 168990) Testudinata indet. (168417)