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Notochelone costata
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).
It was recombined as Notochelone costata by Lydekker (1889) and Fordyce (1991).
Synonymy list
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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.
†Notochelone costata Owen 1882
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available