Euclastes Cope 1870 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Pancheloniidae

Synonyms: Catapleura Cope 1870, Glossochelys Seeley 1871, Osteopygoides Karl et al. 1998, Pampaemys de la Fuente and Casadio 2000

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235

Parent taxon: Pancheloniidae according to P. V. Ullmann and E. R. Carr 2021

See also Brinkman et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Cope 1870, Cope 1884, de la Fuente and Casadio 2000, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2014, Hay 1902, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Hirayama 2006, Hirayama and Tong 2003, Jalil et al. 2009, Joyce et al. 2004, Lynch and Parham 2003, Mateus et al. 2012, Parham 2005, Parham et al. 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Weems 1988 and Weems 2014

Sister taxa: Argillochelys, Australobaena, Carolinochelys, Ctenochelyidae, Peritresius, Prionochelys

Subtaxa: Euclastes acutirostris Euclastes coahuilaensis Euclastes melii Euclastes meridionalis Euclastes platyops Euclastes wielandi

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Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Italy (1 collection)

• Oligocene of United States (1: South Carolina)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Maryland , New Jersey)

• Paleocene of Argentina (2), Morocco (4), United States (7: Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Chile (2), Mexico (2), United States (8: California, New Jersey, South Carolina)

Total: 33 collections including 37 occurrences

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