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Echmatemys haydeni

Osteichthyes - Testudines - Geoemydidae

Taxonomy
Emys haydeni was named by Leidy (1870). Its type specimen is USNM 109 (holotype), a partial shell (partial carapace ), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is A few miles from Fort Bridger, which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

It was synonymized subjectively with Emys wyomingensis by Leidy (1873); it was recombined as Echmatemys haydeni by Hay (1930), Gilmore (1945), Vlachos (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Emys haydeni Leidy
1884Emys haydeni Cope
1902Emys haydeni Hay p. 448
1930Echmatemys haydeni Hay p. 95
1945Echmatemys haydeni Gilmore p. 105
2018Echmatemys haydeni Vlachos

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
Pantestudinoidea
superfamilyTestudinoidea
familyGeoemydidaeTheobald 1868
genusEchmatemys
specieshaydeni()

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.

Echmatemys haydeni Leidy 1870
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. Vlachos 2018Echmatemys haydeni can be diagnosed as a member of Echmatemys based on the characters mentioned above. Echmatemys haydeni differs from other Echmatemys based on the following combination of characters: highly differentiated neural series, with an octagonal neural IV and sometimes an octagonal neural II, and long contact between marginal I and pleural I.