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Toremys cassiopeia

Reptilia - Pleurosternidae

Taxonomy
Toremys cassiopeia was named by Pérez-García et al. (2015). Its type specimen is AR-1-4893, a set of postcrania (Nearly complete and articulated shell, and some appendicular elements), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Santa Maria Mine, Ariño (AR-1), which is in an Albian mire/swamp coal/mudstone in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Toremys cassiopeia Pérez-García et al. p. 75
2019Toremys cassiopeia Joyce and Anquetin

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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)
—Paracryptodira
familyPleurosternidae
genusToremys
speciescassiopeia

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.

†Toremys cassiopeia Pérez-García et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
W. G. Joyce and J. Anquetin 2019Toremys cassiopeia can be diagnosed as a paracryptodire by the full list of shell characters listed for that clade above. Toremys cassiopeia can be differentiated from all other paracryptodires by symplesiomorphically lacking a midline contact of peripherals I (in contrast to Selenemys lusitanica and Compsemys spp.) and possessing paired gulars (in contrast to Pleurosternon bullockii) and by apomorphically lacking a cervical (as in Pleurosternon bullockii and Selenemys lusitanica).
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: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Spain (Aragón) Toremys cassiopeia (type locality: 136754)