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Erquelinnesia
Taxonomy
Erquelinnesia was named by Dollo (1887) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-l Sepkoski's reference number: 1066].
It was synonymized subjectively with Euclastes by Lynch and Parham (2003); it was reranked as Euclastes (Erquelinnesia) by Kear and Lee (2006).
It was assigned to Thalassemydidae by Hay (1908) and Hay (1930); to Osteopyginae by Moody (1980) and Weems (1988); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Euclastes by Kear and Lee (2006); and to Cheloniidae by Hirayama (1995) and Myers et al. (2018).
It was synonymized subjectively with Euclastes by Lynch and Parham (2003); it was reranked as Euclastes (Erquelinnesia) by Kear and Lee (2006).
It was assigned to Thalassemydidae by Hay (1908) and Hay (1930); to Osteopyginae by Moody (1980) and Weems (1988); to Chelonia by Sepkoski (2002); to Euclastes by Kear and Lee (2006); and to Cheloniidae by Hirayama (1995) and Myers et al. (2018).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Erquelinnesia Dollo |
| 1908 | Erquelinnesia Hay p. 160 |
| 1930 | Erquelinnesia Hay p. 77 |
| 1980 | Erquelinnesia Moody p. 161 |
| 1988 | Erquelinnesia Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 1995 | Erquelinnesia Hirayama p. 282 |
| 2002 | Erquelinnesia Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Euclastes (Erquelinnesia) Kear and Lee p. 116 |
| 2018 | Erquelinnesia Myers et al. p. 171 |
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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.
G. †Erquelinnesia Dollo 1887
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†Erquelinnesia gosseleti Dollo 1886
†Erquelinnesia planimenta Owen 1841
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. P. Hay 1908 | Skull resembling that of Caretta caretta, but more elevated and descending more rapidly in front of the orbits. Palate flat, bounded by low cutting-edges, and extending backward to the hinder half of the roof of the mouth. Choanae in the hinder half of the roof of the mouth, their anterior boundary formed by the palatines, which have met behind the palatal plate of the vomer. Lower jaw not beakt. Shell resembling that of Caretta, but more rounded behind. |
Measurements
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| Source: superf = superfamily, subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Uetz 2005, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||