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Dracochelys
Taxonomy
Dracochelys was named by Gaffney and Ye (1992). Its type is Dracochelys bicuspis.
It was assigned to Testudines by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Macrobaenidae by Gaffney and Ye (1992), Sukhanov (2000), Parham and Hutchison (2003) and Brinkman et al. (2010); to Sinemydidae by Brinkman (2001), Maisch et al. (2003), Brinkman et al. (2008) and Zhou et al. (2014); to Eucryptodira by Joyce (2007) and Puntener et al. (2014); to Testudines by Perea et al. (2014); and to Sinemydidae by Zhou and Rabi (2015).
It was assigned to Testudines by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Macrobaenidae by Gaffney and Ye (1992), Sukhanov (2000), Parham and Hutchison (2003) and Brinkman et al. (2010); to Sinemydidae by Brinkman (2001), Maisch et al. (2003), Brinkman et al. (2008) and Zhou et al. (2014); to Eucryptodira by Joyce (2007) and Puntener et al. (2014); to Testudines by Perea et al. (2014); and to Sinemydidae by Zhou and Rabi (2015).
Species
D. bicuspis (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1992 | Dracochelys Gaffney and Ye p. 3 figs. 1-6 |
| 2000 | Dracochelys Sukhanov pp. 326-327 |
| 2001 | Dracochelys Brinkman p. 1645 |
| 2003 | Dracochelys Maisch et al. p. 707 |
| 2003 | Dracochelys Parham and Hutchison p. 784 |
| 2007 | Dracochelys Joyce |
| 2008 | Dracochelys Brinkman et al. p. 51 |
| 2009 | Dracochelys Anquetin et al. |
| 2010 | Dracochelys Brinkman et al. |
| 2014 | Dracochelys Perea et al. |
| 2014 | Dracochelys Puntener et al. |
| 2014 | Dracochelys Zhou et al. |
| 2015 | Dracochelys Zhou and Rabi |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available