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Euclastes platyops

Reptilia - Testudines

Taxonomy
Euclastes platyops was named by Cope (1870). Its type specimen is ANSP specimen, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hurffville, which is in a Paleocene marine horizon in the Vincentown Formation of New Jersey. It is the type species of Rhetechelys.

It was recombined as Lytoloma platyops by Hay (1902); it was recombined as Rhetechelys platyops by Hay (1908), Hay (1930) and Zangerl (1953).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Euclastes platyops Cope p. 149
1902Lytoloma platyops Hay p. 442
1908Rhetechelys platyops Hay p. 162 figs. Plate 29, figs. 2, 3
1930Rhetechelys platyops Hay p. 77
1953Rhetechelys platyops Zangerl p. 215
2009Euclastes platyops Jalil et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
—PanchelonioideaJoyce et al. 2004
—PancheloniidaeJoyce et al. 2004
genusEuclastes
speciesplatyops

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.

†Euclastes platyops Cope 1870
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: freshwatersubo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: aquaticsubo
Diet: omnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparoussubo
Created: 2005-08-26 14:49:00
Modified: 2005-08-26 16:49:00
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Uetz 2005, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Late/Upper Paleocene or 58.70000 to 55.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Thanetian59.2 - 56.0USA (New Jersey) Rhetechelys platyops (3113)
Late/Upper Paleocene58.7 - 55.8USA (New Jersey) Euclastes platyops (type locality: 82001)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9USA (New Jersey) Chelone sopita (84043)