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Desmatochelys
Taxonomy
Desmatochelys was named by Williston (1894) [Sepkoski's age data: K Turo-l K Maes Sepkoski's reference number: 1066,1069]. Its type is Desmatochelys lowii. It is the type genus of Desmatochelyidae.
It was assigned to Desmatochelyinae by Weems (1988); to Cheloniidae by Carroll (1988); to Chelonioidea by Hooks (1998); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Desmatochelyidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Nicholls (1992), Elliott et al. (1997), Nicholls and Meckert (2002); to Dermochelyoidae by Bardet et al. (2013); and to Protostegidae by Hirayama (1995), de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2014), Cadena and Parham (2015), López-Conde et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Desmatochelyinae by Weems (1988); to Cheloniidae by Carroll (1988); to Chelonioidea by Hooks (1998); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Desmatochelyidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Nicholls (1992), Elliott et al. (1997), Nicholls and Meckert (2002); to Dermochelyoidae by Bardet et al. (2013); and to Protostegidae by Hirayama (1995), de Lapparent de Broin et al. (2014), Cadena and Parham (2015), López-Conde et al. (2019).
Species
D. lowii (type species), D. padillai
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1894 | Desmatochelys Williston |
| 1902 | Desmatochelys Hay p. 443 |
| 1930 | Desmatochelys Hay p. 77 |
| 1988 | Desmatochelys Carroll |
| 1988 | Desmatochelys Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 1992 | Desmatochelys Nicholls p. 378 |
| 1995 | Desmatochelys Hirayama p. 282 |
| 1997 | Desmatochelys Elliott et al. |
| 1998 | Desmatochelys Hooks |
| 2002 | Desmatochelys Nicholls and Meckert p. 1600 |
| 2002 | Desmatochelys Sepkoski |
| 2013 | Desmatochelys Bardet et al. |
| 2014 | Desmatochelys de Lapparent de Broin et al. |
| 2015 | Desmatochelys Cadena and Parham p. 3 |
| 2019 | Desmatochelys López-Conde et al. |
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G. †Desmatochelys Williston 1894
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†Desmatochelys lowii Williston 1894
†Desmatochelys padillai Cadena and Parham 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Collections (9 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cretaceous | USA (Nebraska) | D. lowii (191693) | |
| Barremian | Colombia | D. padillai (72029) | |
| Late/Upper Barremian - Early/Lower Aptian | Colombia (Boyaca) | D. padillai (176544) | |
| Middle Turonian | USA (Arizona) | D. lowi (55986) | |
| Turonian | USA (Kansas) | D. lowi (102879) | |
| Turonian | USA (South Dakota) | D. lowi (181902) | |
| Late/Upper Santonian | Canada (British Columbia) | D. lowi (27727 27728) | |
| Campanian | Mexico (Coahuila) | D. lowii (201737) |