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Otwayemys cunicularius

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Otwayemys cunicularius was named by Gaffney et al. (1998). Its type specimen is NMV P186116, a shell (a nearly complete shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Slippery Rock, Dinosaur Cove, which is in an Albian crevasse splay sandstone/mudstone in the Eumeralla Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Otwayemys.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Otwayemys cunicularius Gaffney et al. pp. 3-5 figs. 1-4, 10-11
2013Otwayemys cunicularius Pérez-García and Murelaga
2015Otwayemys cunicularius Sterli

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
—Perichelydia
—Meiolaniformes
genusOtwayemys
speciescunicularius

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.

†Otwayemys cunicularius Gaffney et al. 1998
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. S. Gaffney et al. 1998As for genus [Otwayemys]
J. Sterli 2015Otwayemys cunicularius is differentiated from other meiolaniforms by the combination of the following characters: shell elements thick, costal II not anteriorly bent, lack of mesoplastra, bridge peripherals guttered, gular scutes extending onto entoplastron, large hyoplastron–hypoplastron fontanelle and inframarginals present
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Early/Lower Albian or 112.03000 to 109.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Australia (Victoria) Testudines indet. (38534 38537 type locality: 38542)