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Helochelys danubina

Osteichthyes

Taxonomy
Helochelys danubina was named by von Meyer (1854). Its type specimen is BSPG lost specimen, a partial skeleton (partial shell and a limb bone), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Neukelheim Grünsandstein, which is in a Cenomanian marine sandstone in the Grünsandstein Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Helochelys danubina von Meyer
1855Helochelys danubina von Meyer
2011Helochelys danubina Joyce et al. p. 81
2017Helochelys danubina Joyce

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
—Helochelydridae()
genusHelochelysvon Meyer 1854
speciesdanubina

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.

†Helochelys danubina von Meyer 1854
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. G. Joyce et al. 2011Revised diagnosis using sculpturing only. A Late Cretaceous taxon based exclusively on the surface pattern of its shell, which consists of sharply delineated high tubercles that cover the entire shell, which dislocate and never coalesce
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Cenomanian or 106.30000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5United Kingdom (England) Helochelys danubina (94210)
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Germany Helochelys danubina (type locality: 138006)
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France (Poitou-Charentes) Solemydidae indet. (65421 77229 77230 77231 77232 77233)