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Desmatochelyidae
Taxonomy
Desmatochelyidae was named by Williston (1894). It is not extant. Its type is Desmatochelys.
It was reranked as the subfamily Desmatochelyinae by Weems (1988).
It was assigned to Cryptodira by Hay (1902); to Chelonioidae by Hay (1930); to Cryptodira by Kuhn (1946); to Dermochelyidae by Weems (1988); to Chelonioidea by Kuhn (1966) and Nicholls (1992); and to Chelonioidea by Nicholls and Meckert (2002).
It was reranked as the subfamily Desmatochelyinae by Weems (1988).
It was assigned to Cryptodira by Hay (1902); to Chelonioidae by Hay (1930); to Cryptodira by Kuhn (1946); to Dermochelyidae by Weems (1988); to Chelonioidea by Kuhn (1966) and Nicholls (1992); and to Chelonioidea by Nicholls and Meckert (2002).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1894 | Desmatochelyidae Williston |
| 1902 | Desmatochelyidae Hay p. 442 |
| 1930 | Desmatochelyidae Hay p. 77 |
| 1946 | Desmatochelyidae Kuhn p. 58 |
| 1966 | Desmatochelyidae Kuhn p. 28 |
| 1988 | Desmatochelyinae Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 1992 | Desmatochelyidae Nicholls p. 378 |
| 2002 | Desmatochelyidae Nicholls and Meckert p. 1600 |
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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.
Fm. †Desmatochelyidae Williston 1894
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G. †Atlantochelys Agassiz 1849
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†Atlantochelys mortoni Agassiz 1849
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Invalid names: Protostega neptunia Cope 1872 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | USA (Mississippi) | Platecarpus tuberosus (98972) | |
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | USA (New Jersey) | Atlantochelys mortoni, Protostega neptunia (190541) |