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Stylemys inusitata

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Taxonomy
Testudo inusitata was named by Hay (1906). Its type specimen is CM 311 (holotype), a partial shell, a partial shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Canyon Ferry Reservoir Earl Douglass Location, which is in a Hemingfordian terrestrial horizon in Montana.

It was recombined as Stylemys inusitata by Vlachos (2018).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Testudo inusitata Hay
1908Testudo inusitata Hay
1930Testudo inusitata Hay p. 103
1940Testudo copei Koerner
1950Testudo primaeva Oelrich p. 44
1963Geochelone primaeva Auffenberg p. 94
1963Gopherus copei Auffenberg p. 94
1964Geochelone primaeva Auffenberg p. 323
1982Stylemys copei Bramble p. 854
2018Stylemys inusitata Vlachos

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
Pantestudinoidea
superfamilyTestudinoidea
familyTestudinidaeBatsch 1788
subfamilyTestudininae
genusStylemys
speciesinusitata()

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.

Stylemys inusitata Hay 1906
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Invalid names: Stylemys copei Koerner 1940 [synonym], Testudo primaeva Oelrich 1950 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. Vlachos 2018Stylemys inusitata can be diagnosed as a member of Stylemys based on the hexagonal neurals II–VII and the shape of the humero-pectoral sulcus. Stylemys inusitata differs from Stylemys nebrascensis in the more prominent epiplastral lip and the short gulars that do not cover the entoplastron and from Stylemys capax in the absence of octagonal neural II and absence of gulars covering of the anterior part of the entoplastron.