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Euclastes wielandi

Reptilia - Testudines

Taxonomy
Lytoloma wielandi was named by Hay (1908). Its type specimen is YPM specimen, a partial shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is West Jersey Marl Company's Pit, Barnsboro (New Egypt), which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone/marl in the New Egypt Formation of New Jersey.

It was synonymized subjectively with Catapleura repanda by Hirayama (2006); it was recombined as Euclastes wielandi by Parham (2005), Tong and Meylan (2013) and Weems (2014).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1868Osteopygis repandus Cope p. 147
1869Propleura repanda Cope
1870Catapleura repanda Cope p. 143
1870Lytoloma angusta Cope p. 145
1871Catapleura ponderosa Cope p. 46
1902Osteopygis ponderosus Hay p. 441
1902Osteopygis repandus Hay p. 441
1902Lytoloma angusta Hay p. 442
1904Lytoloma angusta Wieland p. 183
1908Catapleura repanda Hay p. 150 figs. Figs. 185-188
1908Catapleura ponderosa Hay pp. 152-153 figs. figs 189-190
1908Lytoloma angusta Hay p. 155 figs. Plate 28, figs. 5, 6; text-figs. 191, 192
1908Lytoloma wielandi Hay pp. 157-158 figs. Plate zS, figs. 7, 8; plate 29, fig. i; teit-figs. 196, 197
1908Erquelinnesia molaria Hay pp. 160-161 figs. figs 198-199
1930Catapleura ponderosa Hay p. 76
1930Catapleura repanda Hay p. 76
1930Lytoloma angusta Hay p. 76
1930Erquelinnesia molaria Hay p. 77
1930Lytoloma wielandi Hay p. 77
1953Toxochelys atlantica Zangerl p. 196 figs. Fig. 79-80
1971Dollochelys casieri Zangerl p. 4
1988Dollochelys atlantica Nicholls p. 184
1988Osteopygis roundsi Weems p. 120 figs. Figs. 12A, 13, 14A, 15
1988Dollochelys coatesi Weems p. 132
1998Osteopygoides priscus Karl et al.
2003Euclastes priscus Lynch and Parham
2003Euclastes roundsi Lynch and Parham
2005Euclastes wielandi Parham p. 75
2013Euclastes wielandi Tong and Meylan
2014Catapleura coatesi Weems
2014Euclastes wielandi Weems

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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
PanchelonioideaJoyce et al. 2004
PancheloniidaeJoyce et al. 2004
genusEuclastes
specieswielandi()

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.

Euclastes wielandi Hay 1908
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Invalid names: Catapleura ponderosa Cope 1871 [synonym], Erquelinnesia molaria Hay 1908 [synonym], Euclastes priscus Lynch and Parham 2003 [synonym], Osteopygis repandus Cope 1868 [synonym], Osteopygis roundsi Weems 1988 [synonym], Osteopygoides priscus Karl et al. 1998 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available