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Taxonomy
Trinitichelys hiatti was named by Gaffney (1972). Its type specimen is MCZ 4070, a partial skeleton (almost complete skeleton, lacking the lower jaw, caudal vertebrae, distal parts of the limbs, and posterior part of the shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 1 mile from Hardy, on road to Forestburg, which is in an Albian terrestrial horizon in Texas. It is the type species of Trinitichelys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1972 | Trinitichelys hiatti Gaffney pp. 254-255 figs. 2-5, 47 |
| 2014 | Trinitichelys hiatti Perea et al. |
| 2015 | Trinitichelys hiatti Joyce and Lyson |
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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.
†Trinitichelys hiatti Gaffney 1972
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. S. Gaffney 1972 | as the genus is monotypic, there can be no delimiting of specific characters |
Measurements
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Albian | USA (Texas) | Trinitichelys hiatti (type locality: 122912) |