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Sontiochelys cretacea
Discussion
Originally preserved in the Museum of Görz, today lost. A cast of the holotype is in the permanent collection of Museo Civico di Storia naturale di Trieste
Taxonomy
Sontiochelys cretacea was named by Stache (1905). Its type specimen is Lost and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mrzlek (Gorica Museum collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Slovenia. It is the type species of Sontiochelys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1905 | Sontiochelys cretacea Stache |
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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.
†Sontiochelys cretacea Stache 1905
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Cenomanian | Slovenia | Sontiochelys cretacea (type locality: 144686) |