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Rheodytes is a genus of turtle in the Chelidae family from Australia. It contains the following species:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheodytes, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2442085	https://www.gbif.org/species/2442085
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	131437	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=131437

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Chelidae : Rheodytes

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Pleurodira	Cope 1865
-	Panchelidae	Joyce et al. 2004
-	Chelidae	Gray 1825
genus	Rheodytes	Legler & Cann 1980

Scientific Name

Rheodytes Legler & Cann, 1980

Name Published In

Legler, John & John Cann. 1980. A new species of chelid turtle from Queensland, Australia. Contributions in Science of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 324: 1-18.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rheodytes	genus	belongs to Chelidae	stated without evidence	Frank and Ramus, 1996
Rheodytes	genus	belongs to Chelidae	stated with evidence	Gaffney et al., 2006
Rheodytes	genus	belongs to Chelodininae	stated without evidence	van Dijk et al., 2014
Rheodytes	genus	belongs to Chelidae	stated with evidence	Maniel and de la Fuente, 2016

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (67%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

freshwater (based on Chelidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

piscivore (based on Chelidae)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Chelidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318

Common Name(s)

Fitzroy River Turtles

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheodytes

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Rheodytes devisi ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Rheodytes leukops species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Fitzroy River Turtle			0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1980	Rheodytes Legler and Cann
1996	Rheodytes Frank and Ramus
2006	Rheodytes Gaffney et al. p. 33
2014	Rheodytes van Dijk et al.
2016	Rheodytes Maniel and de la Fuente

References

Gaffney E. S., Tong H., et al (2006) Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300, 1-318

Frank N., Ramus E. (1996) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, 1-377

van Dijk P. P., Iverson J. B., et al (2014) Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status, Chelonian Research Monographs 5, 329-479

Maniel I. J., de la Fuente M. S. (2016) A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Chelidae, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57 2, 191-227

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Contributions Sci., Los Angeles No. 324 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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