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Stygiochelys estesi ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4965232https://www.gbif.org/species/4965232
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)67759https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67759
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Baenidae : Stygiochelys : Stygiochelys estesi
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Baenidae : Stygiochelys : Stygiochelys estesi
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
-Testudinata
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
-ParacryptodiraGaffney 1975
familyBaenidaeCope 1882
-BaenoddaGaffney and Meylan 1988
-Eubaeninae
genusStygiochelysGaffney and Hiatt 1971
speciesStygiochelys estesiGaffney & Hiatt 1971
Generic NameStygiochelys
Scientific NameStygiochelys estesi Gaffney & Hiatt, 1971
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Stygiochelys estesispeciesbelongs to Stygiochelysstated without evidenceGaffney and Hiatt, 1971
Stygiochelys estesispeciesbelongs to Stygiochelysstated with evidenceGaffney, 1972
Stygiochelys estesispeciesbelongs to StygiochelysimpliedBryant, 1989
Stygiochelys estesispeciesbelongs to Stygiochelysstated with evidenceHutchison and Holroyd, 2003
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance66.0 - 63.3 Ma
Paleocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Amniota)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)E. S. Gaffney and R. Hiatt. 1971. A new baenid turtle From the Upper Cretaceous of Montana. American Museum Novitates 2443:1-9

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1971Stygiochelys estesi Gaffney and Hiatt p. 3 figs. 1-6
1972Stygiochelys estesi Gaffney pp. 248, 266-269 figs. 20-21, 58
1989Stygiochelys estesi Bryant p. 36
2003Stygiochelys estesi Hutchison and Holroyd
2015Stygiochelys estesi Joyce and Lyson

References

Gaffney E. S., Hiatt R. (1971) A new baenid turtle From the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, American Museum Novitates 2443, 1-9
Gaffney E. S. (1972) The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147 5, 245-312
Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107
Hutchison J. H., Holroyd P. A. (2003) Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado, Rocky Mountain Geology 38 1, 121-142
Joyce W. G., Lyson T. R. (2015) A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Baenidae, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56 2, 147-183 doi:10.3374/014.056.0203
E. S. Gaffney, R. Hiatt (1971) A new baenid turtle From the Upper Cretaceous of Montana: American Museum Novitates: 1--9 - via Catalogue of Life
J. H. Hutchison, P. A. Holroyd (2003) Late Cretaceous and early Paleocene turtles of the Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology 1: 121--142 - via Catalogue of Life
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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