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Trinitichelys

Reptilia - Baenidae

Taxonomy

Trinitichelys was named by Gaffney (1972). Its type is Trinitichelys hiatti.

It was assigned to Trinitychelyinae by Gaffney (1972); to Paracryptodira by Anquetin et al. (2009); to Testudinata by Perea et al. (2014); to Baenidae by Joyce and Lyson (2015); and to Baenidae by Carroll (1988), Joyce (2007), Lyson and Joyce (2010), Lyson and Joyce (2011), Anquetin (2012) and Lyson et al. (2016).

Species

T. hiatti (type species)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1972	Trinitichelys Gaffney pp. 248, 253-254
1988	Trinitichelys Carroll
2007	Trinitichelys Joyce
2009	Trinitichelys Anquetin et al.
2010	Trinitichelys Lyson and Joyce
2011	Trinitichelys Lyson and Joyce p. 792
2012	Trinitichelys Anquetin p. 28 fig. 10
2014	Trinitichelys Perea et al.
2015	Trinitichelys Joyce and Lyson
2016	Trinitichelys Lyson et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Testudinata	(Oppel 1811)
—	Paracryptodira
family	Baenidae	Cope 1882
genus	Trinitichelys

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.

G. †Trinitichelys Gaffney 1972

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†Trinitichelys hiatti Gaffney 1972

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
E. S. Gaffney 1972	same as for subfamily

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: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

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 Albian	112.03 - 109.0	USA (Texas)	T. hiatti (122912)