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Chelone costata
Taxonomy
Chelone costata was named by Owen (1853). Its type specimen is BMNH 2370, a partial shell (slab of sandstone showing the ventral surface of the anterior portion of the left side of the carapace), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tilgate Forest, Cuckfield, which is in a Valanginian terrestrial sandstone in the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Plesiochelys costata by Lydekker and Boulenger (1887); it was synonymized subjectively with Hylaeochelys belli by Delair (1958), Heinrich (1991), Milner (2011), Pérez-García (2012).
It was recombined as Plesiochelys costata by Lydekker and Boulenger (1887); it was synonymized subjectively with Hylaeochelys belli by Delair (1958), Heinrich (1991), Milner (2011), Pérez-García (2012).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1853 | Chelone costata Owen |
| 1887 | Plesiochelys costata Lydekker and Boulenger p. 272 |
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†Chelone costata Owen 1853
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available