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Puppigerus crassicostata

Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

Taxonomy
Chelone crassicostata was named by Owen (1849). Its type specimen is PV R 912 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Stone Ridge, near the Harwich harbour, which is in a Ypresian marine siliciclastic in the London Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Puppigerus crassicostatus by Cope (1870); it was recombined as Lytoloma crassicostatum by Lydekker (1889); it was recombined as Puppigerus crassicostata by Tong et al. (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1841Chelone latiscutata Owen p. 574
1842Chelone latiscutata Owen p. 179
1849Chelone crassicostata Owen p. 27
1870Puppigerus crassicostatus Cope
1870Puppigerus latiscutatus Cope p. 235
1889Lytoloma crassicostatum Lydekker pp. 60-64
2012Puppigerus crassicostata Tong et al. p. 635

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
superfamilyChelonioidea
familyCheloniidaeBonaparte 1832
genusPuppigerus
speciescrassicostata(Owen 1849)

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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Invalid names: Puppigerus latiscutatus Owen 1841 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available