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Trionyx admirabilis

Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Taxonomy
Conchochelys admirabilis was named by Hay (1905). Its type specimen is AMNH 6090, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Coal Creek Canyon, which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in New Mexico. It is the type species of Conchochelys.

It was recombined as Axestemys admirabilis by Hutchison and Holroyd (2003); it was recombined as Trionyx admirabilis by Vitek and Joyce (2015).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Conchochelys admirabilis Hay p. 494 figs. Plate 88, figs. 1-3
1908Conchochelys admirabilis Hay p. 494
1930Conchochelys admirabilis Hay p. 110
2003Axestemys admirabilis Hutchison and Holroyd
2012Conchochelys admirabilis Vitek pp. table 1
2015Trionyx admirabilis Vitek and Joyce

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
suborderCryptodira
familyTrionychidaeGray 1825
subfamilyTrionychinaeGray 1825
genusTrionyx
speciesadmirabilis()

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.

Trionyx admirabilis Hay 1905
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Body part: carapacef
Adult length: 100 to < 1000f
Grouping: solitaryf
Environment: brackish, freshwaterf
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: aquaticf
Diet: piscivoref
Diet 2: carnivoref
Reproduction: oviparousf
Created: 2005-08-25 13:24:04
Modified: 2005-09-09 19:45:41
Source: f = family, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Ernst and Barbour 1989

Age range: Puercan or 66.00000 to 63.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Puercan66.0 - 63.3USA (New Mexico) Conchochelys admirabilis (type locality: 131897)