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Trionyx admirabilis
Taxonomy
Conchochelys admirabilis was named by Hay (1905). Its type specimen is AMNH 6090, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coal Creek Canyon, which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in New Mexico. It is the type species of Conchochelys.
It was recombined as Axestemys admirabilis by Hutchison and Holroyd (2003); it was recombined as Trionyx admirabilis by Vitek and Joyce (2015).
It was recombined as Axestemys admirabilis by Hutchison and Holroyd (2003); it was recombined as Trionyx admirabilis by Vitek and Joyce (2015).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1905 | Conchochelys admirabilis Hay p. 494 figs. Plate 88, figs. 1-3 |
| 1908 | Conchochelys admirabilis Hay p. 494 |
| 1930 | Conchochelys admirabilis Hay p. 110 |
| 2003 | Axestemys admirabilis Hutchison and Holroyd |
| 2012 | Conchochelys admirabilis Vitek pp. table 1 |
| 2015 | Trionyx admirabilis Vitek and Joyce |
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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.
†Trionyx admirabilis Hay 1905
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ernst and Barbour 1989, Carroll 1988 | |||||