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Platysterninae
Taxonomy
Platysternidae was named by Gray (1869) [Joyce et al. actually prefer their new name "Panplatysternon," which is an objective junior synonym]. It is extant.
It was reranked as the subfamily Platysterninae by Nopcsa (1928) and Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Platysternoidea by Baur (1893); to Dermatemydidae by Nopcsa (1928); to Cryptodiri by Jaekel (1911) and Perrier (1928); to Cryptodira by Gadow (1898) and Kuhn (1946); to Testudinidae by Kuhn (1966); to Testudines by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Cryptoderinea by Joyce et al. (2004); and to Testudinoidea by van Dijk et al. (2014).
It was reranked as the subfamily Platysterninae by Nopcsa (1928) and Kuhn (1966).
It was assigned to Platysternoidea by Baur (1893); to Dermatemydidae by Nopcsa (1928); to Cryptodiri by Jaekel (1911) and Perrier (1928); to Cryptodira by Gadow (1898) and Kuhn (1946); to Testudinidae by Kuhn (1966); to Testudines by Frank and Ramus (1996); to Cryptoderinea by Joyce et al. (2004); and to Testudinoidea by van Dijk et al. (2014).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1869 | Platysternidae Gray |
| 1893 | Platysternidae Baur p. 674 |
| 1898 | Platysternidae Gadow p. 20 |
| 1911 | Platysternidae Jaekel p. 186 |
| 1928 | Platysterninae Nopcsa p. 167 |
| 1928 | Platysternidae Perrier p. 3112 |
| 1946 | Platysternidae Kuhn p. 58 |
| 1966 | Platysterninae Kuhn p. 26 |
| 1996 | Platysternidae Frank and Ramus |
| 2004 | Platysternidae Joyce et al. |
| 2014 | Platysternidae van Dijk et al. |
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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.
Subfm. Platysterninae Gray 1869
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G. Platysternon Gray 1831 [big-headed turtle]
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Platysternon megacephalum Danilov and Parham 2008
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Perrier 1928 | Queue longue, revêtue d'anneaux cornés. Tête très grande, complètement rétractile, recouverte par un cuir uni, non divisé. Carapace très aplatie, couverte par les plaques cornées ordinaires, qui sont lisses et juxtaposées; plaques osseuses neurales formant une série continue. Plastron grand; ses plaques cornées séparées des marginales par des inframarginales. Pattes et régime de la famille précédente. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available