Reptilia - Testudines - Platychelyidae
Full reference: A. v. Wagner. 1853. Beschreibung einer fossilen Schildkröte und etlicher anderer Reptilien-Ueberreste aus den lithographischen Schiefern und dem Grünsandstein. Abhandlungen der Mathemat.-Physikalischen Classe de Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 7:241-264
Parent taxon: Platychelyidae according to P. M. Sullivan and W. G. Joyce 2017
See also Anquetin 2012, Anquetin et al. 2009, Bräm 1965, Cadena et al. 2013, Cadena and Joyce 2015, Cadena Rueda and Gaffney 2005, Carroll 1988, Cope 1884, Danilov and Parham 2008, de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Delair 1958, Gaffney et al. 2006, Joyce 2007, Joyce et al. 2004, Lydekker 1889, Perea et al. 2014, Puntener et al. 2014 and Quenstedt 1882
Sister taxon: Notoemys
Subtaxa: Helemys Helemys serrata Platychelys courrenti Platychelys oberndorferi
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (2 collections), Portugal (1), Switzerland (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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