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Arvinachelys goldeni

Reptilia - Baenidae

Taxonomy
Arvinachelys goldeni was named by Lively (2015). Its type specimen is UMNH VP 21151, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Horse Mountain Gryposaur Quarry, which is in a Campanian terrestrial mudstone in the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah. It is the type species of Arvinachelys.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Arvinachelys goldeni Joyce and Lyson
2015Arvinachelys goldeni Lively p. 3 figs. 1-8

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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)
—Paracryptodira
familyBaenidaeCope 1882
—BaenoddaGaffney and Meylan 1988
genusArvinachelys
speciesgoldeni

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.

†Arvinachelys goldeni Lively 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available