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Ctenochelys stenoporus

Reptilia - Testudines - Ctenochelyidae

Taxonomy
Toxochelys stenoporus was named by Hay (1905). Its type specimen is YPM-1786 and is a 3D body fossil.

It was corrected as Toxochelys stenopora by Hay (1930); it was recombined as Ctenochelys stenoporus by Zangerl (1953), Matzke (2007), Karl and Nyhuis (2012), Gentry (2017).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
C. tenuitesta

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Toxochelys stenoporus Hay p. 181 figs. 8-11
1905Toxochelys bauri Wieland p. 326
1930Toxochelys bauri Hay p. 86
1930Toxochelys stenopora Hay p. 87
1953Ctenochelys stenoporus Zangerl p. 237
2007Ctenochelys stenoporus Matzke
2012Ctenochelys stenoporus Karl and Nyhuis
2017Ctenochelys stenoporus Gentry

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
—PanchelonioideaJoyce et al. 2004
—PancheloniidaeJoyce et al. 2004
familyCtenochelyidae
genusCtenochelys
speciesstenoporus()

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.

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Invalid names: Toxochelys bauri Wieland 1905 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available