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Lutemys warreni
Discussion
The specific epithet honors David Warren for his long time support of the Department of Earth Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature and
Science, and his overall long-term support of paleontology in the Rocky Mountain West.
Taxonomy
Lutemys warreni was named by Lyson et al. (2017). Its type specimen is DMNH EPV.89000, a partial skeleton (disarticulated skeleton that includes portions of the shell, pelvis, appendicular elements, partial left? frontal, and partial left dentary), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is DMNH 4865 (Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument), which is in a Campanian fluvial siltstone in the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah. It is the type species of Lutemys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2017 | Lutemys warreni Lyson et al. p. 2 fig. 2 |
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†Lutemys warreni Lyson et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. R. Lyson et al. 2017 | Lutemys warreni differs from all other pan-kinosternoid taxa in the following unique combination of characters: absence of plastral or carapacial fontanelles, presence of a thin, gracile plastron, shell texture smooth, and thin carapace lacking median and lateral keels. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Campanian | USA (Utah) | Lutemys warreni (type locality: 190747) |