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Ueloca colemanorum
Discussion
Registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:E243CB90-85A5-4240-BFCB-1358B4BAE46E
Etymology: The species name, colemanorum, honors the Coleman family (Adrienne, Adam, Talah, and Corey) of Mobile, Alabama, who discovered MSC 49490 and then dedicated an extraordinary amount of time, energy, and resources to its recovery.
Taxonomy
Ueloca colemanorum was named by Gentry et al. (2025). Its type specimen is MSC 49490, a partial shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AMo-10, which is in a Rupelian marine limestone in the Byram Formation of Alabama. It is the type species of Ueloca.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2025 | Ueloca colemanorum Gentry et al. |
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†Ueloca colemanorum Gentry et al. 2025
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. D. Gentry et al. 2025 | Ueloca colemanorum can be differentiated from most dermochelyids by an absence of carapacial ridges and by having a carapace with parallel, anteroposteriorly oriented rows of enlarged ossicles and clusters of ossicles arranged in floriform or ‘sunflower’ patterns. U. colemanorum. can be distinguished from other ridgeless dermochelyids with floriform ossicle patterns (Ca. rupeliensis and N. peruvianus) by having unsculptured ossicles that regularly exceed 4 cm in length, that are not associated with either floriform patterns or rows of enlarged ossicles, lacking deeply interdigitating ossicle sutures, and having central ossicles of floriform patterns which are only moderately scalloped. |
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| References: Uetz 2005, Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||