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Platychelyidae

Osteichthyes - Testudines

Taxonomy
Platychelyidae was named as a family. Its type is Platychelys.

It was reranked as the unranked clade Platychelyidae by Cadena and Joyce (2015).

It was assigned to Cryptodira by Kuhn (1946); to Amphichelydia by Bräm (1965); to Pleurodira by Carroll (1988); to Platychelira by Gaffney et al. (2006), Danilov et al. (2014); and to Panpleurodira by Cadena and Joyce (2015).

Subtaxa
Notoemys, Platychelys (type genus)
Entered
by J. Alroy on 2003-01-23; modified by E. Vlachos on 2018-01-06

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1946Platychelydae Kuhn p. 58
1965Platychelyidae Bräm p. 27
1988Platychelyidae Carroll
2006Platychelyidae Gaffney et al. p. 31
2014Platychelyidae Danilov et al.
2015Platychelyidae Cadena and Joyce

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
ArchelosauriaCrawford 2015
Pantestudines
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
Panpleurodira
Platychelyidae
Platychelyidae

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.

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G. †Notoemys Cattoi and Freiberg 1961
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Notoemys laticentralis Cattoi and Freiberg 1961
Notoemys oxfordiensis de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001
Notoemys tlaxiacoensis Lopez-Conde et al. 2017
Notoemys zapatocaensis Cadena Rueda and Gaffney 2005
G. †Platychelys Wagner 1853
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Platychelys oberndorferi Wagner 1853
Invalid names: Helemys Rutimeyer 1859 [nomen nudum], Helemys serrata Rutimeyer 1859 [nomen nudum], Platychelys courrenti Bergounioux 1935 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: planktonicp
Diet: suspension feederp
Created: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:16:03
Source: subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum
References: Carroll 1988, Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Middle Oxfordian to the top of the Late/Upper Valanginian or 161.50000 to 132.60000 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian161.5 - 154.8Cuba (Vinales) Caribemys oxfordiensis (137759)
Kimmeridgian154.8 - 149.2Mexico (Oaxaca) Notoemys tlaxiacoensis (187502)
Kimmeridgian154.8 - 149.2Portugal (Centro) Platychelys sp. (24563)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian152.21 - 149.2Germany (Bayern) Platychelys oberndorferi (57682)
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian152.21 - 149.2Switzerland (Solothurn) Platychelys oberndorferi (137749)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06Germany (Bavaria) Platychelys oberndorferi (58604)
Early/Lower Tithonian149.2 - 145.06Argentina (Neuquén) Notoemys laticentralis (79651)
Early/Lower Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian149.2 - 143.1Argentina (Neuquén) Notoemys laticentralis (79652)
Tithonian149.2 - 143.1Argentina (Neuquén) Notoemys laticentralis (79650)
Late/Upper Valanginian137.05 - 132.6Colombia Notoemys zapatocaensis (118398)