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Anomalochelys ✝

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Description

Anomalochelys is an extinct genus of land turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9410330	https://www.gbif.org/species/9410330
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	202721	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=202721

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Nanhsiungchelyidae : Anomalochelys

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	Cryptodira	Cope 1868
-	Eucryptodira	Gaffney 1975
family	Nanhsiungchelyidae	Yeh 1966
genus	Anomalochelys	Hirayama Sakurai Chitoku Kawakami & Kito 2001

Scientific Name

Anomalochelys Hirayama, Sakurai, Chitoku, Kawakami & Kito, 2001

Name Published In

Russ J Herpetol 8 (2), May-August

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anomalochelys	genus	belongs to Nanhsiungchelyidae	stated with evidence	Hirayama et al., 2001

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

freshwater (based on Cryptodira)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Cryptodira)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Cryptodira)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Hirayama, K. Sakurai, and T. Chitoku, G. Kawakami, N. Kito. 2001. Anomalochelys angulata, an unusual land turtle of family Nanhsiungchelyidae (superfamily Trionychoidea; order Testudines) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, North Japan. Russian Journal of Herpetology 8(2):127-138

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anomalochelys angulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
2001	Anomalochelys Hirayama et al. p. 129 figs. 2-6
2008	Anomalochelys Sukhanov et al.
2013	Anomalochelys Danilov et al.

References

Hirayama R., Sakurai K., et al (2001) Anomalochelys angulata, an unusual land turtle of family Nanhsiungchelyidae (superfamily Trionychoidea; order Testudines) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, North Japan, Russian Journal of Herpetology 8 2, 127-138

Sukhanov V. B., Danilov I. G., et al (2008) The description and phylogenetic position of a new nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 4, 601-614

Danilov I. G., Sukhanov V. B., et al (2013) Redescription of Zangerlia dzamynchondi (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, with a Reassessment of the Phylogenetic Position and Relationships of Zangerlia, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, 407-417 doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_22

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

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

Russ J Herpetol 8 (2), May-August - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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