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Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis

Osteichthyes - Testudines - Testudinidae

Discussion

No specimen number - housed in the 9th Petroleum Prospecting and Exploration Brigade, Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, China.

Taxonomy
Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis was named by Yeh (1979). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis type locality, which is in an Eocene/Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Zeyu Formation of China.

It was recombined as Manouria tsiyuanensis by Crumly (1983).

Entered
by D. Nicholson on 2016-05-26; modified by P. Holroyd on 2016-07-03

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1979Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis Yeh
1983Manouria tsiyuanensis Crumly
2008Kansuchelys tsiyuanensis Brinkman et al. p. 92

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
RankNameAuthor
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—ArchelosauriaCrawford 2015
—Pantestudines
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
—Pantestudinoidea
superfamilyTestudinoidea
familyTestudinidaeBatsch 1788
genusKansuchelys
speciestsiyuanensis

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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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available