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Plastomenus
Taxonomy
Plastomenus was named by Cope (1873).
It was synonymized subjectively with Trionyx by Lydekker (1889).
It was assigned to Plastomenidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1908) and Hay (1930); to Plastomeninae by Hutchison (2009); to Trionychidae by Estes (1976), Carroll (1988), Bryant (1989), Hutchison (1992) and Lichtig and Lucas (2015); to Plastomenidae by Vitek and Joyce (2015) and Lyson et al. (2021); and to Plastomenini by Jasinski et al. (2022).
It was synonymized subjectively with Trionyx by Lydekker (1889).
It was assigned to Plastomenidae by Hay (1902), Hay (1908) and Hay (1930); to Plastomeninae by Hutchison (2009); to Trionychidae by Estes (1976), Carroll (1988), Bryant (1989), Hutchison (1992) and Lichtig and Lucas (2015); to Plastomenidae by Vitek and Joyce (2015) and Lyson et al. (2021); and to Plastomenini by Jasinski et al. (2022).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1873 | Plastomenus Cope |
| 1902 | Plastomenus Hay p. 452 |
| 1908 | Plastomenus Hay p. 466 |
| 1930 | Plastomenus Hay p. 106 |
| 1976 | Plastomenus Estes p. 507 |
| 1988 | Plastomenus Carroll |
| 1989 | Plastomenus Bryant p. 40 |
| 1992 | Plastomenus Hutchison |
| 2009 | Plastomenus Hutchison |
| 2015 | Plastomenus Lichtig and Lucas |
| 2015 | Plastomenus Vitek and Joyce |
| 2021 | Plastomenus Lyson et al. |
| 2022 | Plastomenus Jasinski et al. |
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G. †Plastomenus Cope 1873
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†Plastomenus joycei Lyson et al. 2021
†Plastomenus thomasii Cope 1872
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Invalid names: Plastomenus tantillus Hay 1908 [synonym], Plastomenus visendus Hay 1908 [synonym]
†Plastomenus vegetus Gilmore 1919
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available