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Argillochelys africana

Reptilia - Testudines

Taxonomy
Argillochelys africana was named by Tong and Hirayama (2008) [Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de Lyon]. Its type specimen is MNHL 20-268373, a skull (nearly complete skull with incomplete lower jaw), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ouled Abdoun Basin Recette 4, Ypresian, which is in a Ypresian marine phosphorite in Morocco.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Argillochelys africana Tong and Hirayama p. 624 figs. Figs. 2-4

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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
—PanchelonioideaJoyce et al. 2004
—PancheloniidaeJoyce et al. 2004
genusArgillochelys
speciesafricana

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.

†Argillochelys africana Tong and Hirayama 2008
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available