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Notochelone costata

Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae

Taxonomy
Notochelys costata was named by Owen (1882). Its type specimen is Sydney Museum specimen (cast in BMNH R77), a partial skeleton (imperfect shell with pectoral and limb bones), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Flinder's River, which is in a Cretaceous marine horizon in Australia. It is the type species of Notochelys.

It was recombined as Notochelone costata by Lydekker (1889) and Fordyce (1991).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1882Notochelys costata Owen
1889Notochelone costata Lydekker p. 70
1991Notochelone costata Fordyce p. 1173

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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
familyProtostegidaeCope 1873
genusNotochelone
speciescostata()

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.

†Notochelone costata Owen 1882
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