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Plastomenus vegetus
Taxonomy
Aspideretes vegetus was named by Gilmore (1919). Its type specimen is USNM 8539, a partial shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is San Juan Basin (non-specific), which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in the Nacimiento Formation of New Mexico.
It was recombined as Hummelichelys vegetus by Chkhikvadze (2000); it was recombined as Trionyx vegetus by Vitek and Joyce (2015); it was recombined as Plastomenus vegetus by Lyson et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Hummelichelys vegetus by Chkhikvadze (2000); it was recombined as Trionyx vegetus by Vitek and Joyce (2015); it was recombined as Plastomenus vegetus by Lyson et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1919 | Aspideretes vegetus Gilmore p. 57 figs. Pl. 18:2, Pl. 21 |
| 1930 | Aspideretes vegetus Hay p. 110 |
| 2000 | Hummelichelys vegetus Chkhikvadze |
| 2015 | Trionyx vegetus Vitek and Joyce |
| 2021 | Plastomenus vegetus Lyson et al. |
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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.
†Plastomenus vegetus Gilmore 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Holroyd et al. 2001, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||