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Trachyaspis hantoniensis

Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

Taxonomy
Trachyaspis hantoniensis was named by Lydekker (1889). Its type specimen is BMNH R1443, a partial shell (the near entire penultimate marginal of the left side), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hordle Cliff Crocodile Bed, Hampshire, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial sandstone/claystone in the Headon Beds Formation of the United Kingdom.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. miocenicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Trachyaspis hantoniensis Lydekker p. 54

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
superfamilyChelonioidea
familyCheloniidaeBonaparte 1832
genusTrachyaspisvon Meyer 1843
specieshantoniensis

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.

†Trachyaspis hantoniensis Lydekker 1889
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available