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Platychelys
Taxonomy
Platychelys was named by Wagner (1853). It is the type genus of Platychelyidae.
It was assigned to Paludinosa by Quenstedt (1882); to Baenidae by Cope (1884); to Pleurosternidae by Lydekker (1889) and Delair (1958); to Pleurodira by de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent (2001) and Joyce et al. (2004); to Panpleurodira by Danilov and Parham (2008), Anquetin et al. (2009) and Anquetin (2012); to Platychelira by Cadena et al. (2013); to Testudines by Joyce (2007), Perea et al. (2014) and Puntener et al. (2014); to Platychelyidae by Cadena and Joyce (2015); and to Platychelyidae by Bräm (1965), Carroll (1988), Cadena Rueda and Gaffney (2005), Gaffney et al. (2006), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and Sullivan and Joyce (2017).
It was assigned to Paludinosa by Quenstedt (1882); to Baenidae by Cope (1884); to Pleurosternidae by Lydekker (1889) and Delair (1958); to Pleurodira by de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent (2001) and Joyce et al. (2004); to Panpleurodira by Danilov and Parham (2008), Anquetin et al. (2009) and Anquetin (2012); to Platychelira by Cadena et al. (2013); to Testudines by Joyce (2007), Perea et al. (2014) and Puntener et al. (2014); to Platychelyidae by Cadena and Joyce (2015); and to Platychelyidae by Bräm (1965), Carroll (1988), Cadena Rueda and Gaffney (2005), Gaffney et al. (2006), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and Sullivan and Joyce (2017).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1853 | Platychelys Wagner figs. Plate 1 |
| 1859 | Helemys Rutimeyer |
| 1859 | Helemys serrata Rutimeyer |
| 1873 | Helemys Rütimeyer p. 48 |
| 1882 | Platychelys Quenstedt p. 152 |
| 1884 | Platychelys Cope |
| 1889 | Platychelys Lydekker p. 216 |
| 1935 | Platychelys courrenti Bergounioux |
| 1958 | Platychelys Delair p. 50 |
| 1965 | Platychelys Bräm p. 12 |
| 1988 | Platychelys Carroll |
| 2001 | Platychelys de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent |
| 2004 | Platychelys Joyce et al. |
| 2005 | Platychelys Cadena Rueda and Gaffney |
| 2006 | Platychelys Gaffney et al. p. 31 |
| 2007 | Platychelys Joyce |
| 2008 | Platychelys Danilov and Parham |
| 2009 | Platychelys Anquetin et al. |
| 2012 | Platychelys Anquetin p. 34 fig. 10 |
| 2013 | Platychelys Cadena et al. p. 114 fig. 8.5 |
| 2014 | Platychelys Perea et al. |
| 2014 | Platychelys Puntener et al. |
| 2014 | Platychelys de la Fuente et al. |
| 2015 | Platychelys Cadena and Joyce |
| 2017 | Platychelys Sullivan and Joyce |
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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.
G. †Platychelys Wagner 1853
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†Platychelys oberndorferi Wagner 1853
Invalid names: Helemys Rutimeyer 1859 [nomen nudum], Helemys serrata Rutimeyer 1859 [nomen nudum], Platychelys courrenti Bergounioux 1935 [nomen nudum]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available