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Platychelyidae
Taxonomy
Platychelyidae was named as a family. Its type is Platychelys.
It was reranked as the unranked clade Platychelyidae by Cadena and Joyce (2015).
It was assigned to Cryptodira by Kuhn (1946); to Amphichelydia by Bräm (1965); to Pleurodira by Carroll (1988); to Platychelira by Gaffney et al. (2006); and to Panpleurodira by Cadena and Joyce (2015).
It was reranked as the unranked clade Platychelyidae by Cadena and Joyce (2015).
It was assigned to Cryptodira by Kuhn (1946); to Amphichelydia by Bräm (1965); to Pleurodira by Carroll (1988); to Platychelira by Gaffney et al. (2006); and to Panpleurodira by Cadena and Joyce (2015).
Subtaxa
Notoemys, Platychelys (type genus)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1946 | Platychelydae Kuhn p. 58 |
| 1965 | Platychelyidae Bräm p. 27 |
| 1988 | Platychelyidae Carroll |
| 2006 | Platychelyidae Gaffney et al. p. 31 |
| 2015 | Platychelyidae Cadena 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.
Unr. †Platychelyidae
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G. †Notoemys Cattoi and Freiberg 1961
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†Notoemys laticentralis Cattoi and Freiberg 1961
†Notoemys oxfordiensis de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001
†Notoemys tlaxiacoensis Lopez-Conde et al. 2017
†Notoemys zapatocaensis Cadena Rueda and Gaffney 2005
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
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Kimmeridgian to the top of the Late/Upper Valanginian or 157.30000 to 136.40000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Oxfordian - Late/Upper Oxfordian | Cuba (Vinales) | Caribemys oxfordiensis (137759) | |
| Kimmeridgian | Portugal (Leiria) | Platychelys sp. (24563) | |
| Kimmeridgian | Mexico (Oaxaca) | Notoemys tlaxiacoensis (187502) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Switzerland (Solothurn) | Platychelys oberndorferi (137749) | |
| Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | Germany (Bayern) | Platychelys oberndorferi (57682) | |
| Tithonian | Argentina (Neuquén) | Notoemys laticentralis (79650) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | Argentina (Neuquén) | Notoemys laticentralis (79651) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian | Germany (Bavaria) | Platychelys oberndorferi (58604) | |
| Early/Lower Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian | Argentina (Neuquén) | Notoemys laticentralis (79652) | |
| Late/Upper Valanginian | Colombia | Notoemys zapatocaensis (118398) |