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Aspideretes sinuosus

Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Taxonomy
Aspideretes sinuosus was named by Chow and Yeh (1958). Its type specimen is IVPP V 944, a partial skeleton (anterior two-thirds of carapace), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gaozhuang Fauna (Teilhard de Chardin's Zone II), Yushe County, Shanxi Province, which is in the Ruscinian of horizon China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1958Aspideretes sinuosus Chow and Yeh
1963Aspideretes sinuosus Yeh
2008Aspideretes sinuosus Brinkman et al. p. 71

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Triploblastica
—Nephrozoa
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
—Sarcopterygii
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda()
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
—Batrachosauria()
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
familyTrionychidaeGray 1825
genusAspideretesHay 1904
speciessinuosusChow and Yeh 1958

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.

Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available