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Chelone

Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

Taxonomy
Chelone was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Chelonia by Hay (1902).

It was assigned to Chelonia by Owen (1851); to Chelonia by Leidy (1865); to Chelonidae by Owen (1842), Lydekker (1889) and Case (1904); and to Cheloniidae by de Vis (1905).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Chelone Linnaeus
1842Chelone Owen p. 168
1851Chelone Owen p. 1
1865Chelone Leidy p. 104
1889Chelone Lydekker pp. 27-29
1904Chelone Case p. 63
1905Chelone de Vis p. 156

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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
superfamilyChelonioidea
familyCheloniidaeBonaparte 1832
genusChelone

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. Chelone Linnaeus 1758
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†Chelone costata Owen 1853
†Chelone girundica Delfortrie 1869
†Chelone jessoni Lydekker 1889
†Chelone vanbenedeni Smets 1886
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesuperf
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: aquaticsubo
Diet: omnivoresubo
Reproduction: oviparoussubo
Created: 2017-04-17 10:37:12
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:37:12
Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Uetz 2005, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Valanginian to the top of the Serravallian or 140.20000 to 11.62000 Ma

Collections (16 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Valanginian140.2 - 136.4United Kingdom (England) C. costata (52258)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6United Kingdom (England) C. jessoni (94210)
Cenomanian - Turonian100.5 - 89.8United Kingdom (England) C. sp. (92427)
Early/Lower Eocene - Middle Eocene55.8 - 37.71United Kingdom (England) C. sp. (3256 3257)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) C. sp. (41888 41989 41992 41994 41996 41998)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) C. sp. (42658)
Rupelian33.9 - 28.1Belgium (Antwerpen) C. vanbenedeni (52047)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608France C. girundica (198610)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62USA (Maryland) C. sp. (55396 57782)