Reptilia - Testudines - Euclastidae
Synonyms: Catapleura Cope 1870, 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: Euclastidae according to d. B. France de Lapparent et al. 2025
See also Brinkman et al. 2009, Cope 1870, Cope 1884, de la Fuente and Casadio 2000, de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2014, 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, Ullmann and Carr 2021, Weems 1988 and Weems 2014
Sister taxa: Erquelinnesia, Glossochelys, Mexichelys, Pacifichelys
Subtaxa: Euclastes acutirostris Euclastes coahuilaensis Euclastes melii Euclastes meridionalis Euclastes montenati Euclastes platyops Euclastes wielandi
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Oligocene of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Eocene of Belgium (1), United States (2: Maryland , New Jersey)
• Paleocene of Argentina (2), France (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: 34 collections including 38 occurrences
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