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Kallokibotion ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	168583	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=168583

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudinata : Kallokibotion

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
genus	Kallokibotion	Nopcsa 1923

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Testudines	stated with evidence	Nopcsa, 1923
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Kallokibotioninae	stated without evidence	Nopcsa, 1928
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Kallokibotionidae	stated with evidence	Gaffney and Meylan, 1992
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Testudinata	stated with evidence	Joyce, 2007
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Meiolaniformes	stated with evidence	Sterli and de la Fuente, 2013
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Testudinata	stated with evidence	Pérez-García and Murelaga, 2013
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Meiolaniformes	stated with evidence	de la Fuente et al., 2014
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Perichelydia	stated with evidence	Joyce, 2017
Kallokibotion	genus	belongs to Testudinata	stated with evidence	Pérez-García and Codrea, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

86.3 - 83.6 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Amniota)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

B. F. Nopcsa. 1923. On the geological importance of the primitive reptilian fauna in the uppermost Cretaceous of Hungary; with a description of a new tortoise (Kallokibotion). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 74:100-116

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Kallokibotion bajazidi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1923	Kallokibotion Nopcsa p. 104
1928	Kallokibotion Nopcsa p. 166
1988	Kallokibotium Carroll
1992	Kallokibotion Gaffney and Meylan p. 3 figs. 1-32
2007	Kallokibotion Joyce
2008	Kallokibotion Danilov and Parham
2012	Kallokibotion Anquetin p. 34 fig. 10

Year	Name and Author
2013	Kallokibotion Pérez-García and Murelaga
2013	Kallokibotion Sterli and de la Fuente
2014	Kallokibotion de la Fuente et al.
2015	Kallokibotion Sterli et al.
2017	Kallokibotion Joyce
2017	Kallokibotion Pérez-García and Codrea

References

Nopcsa B. F. (1923) On the geological importance of the primitive reptilian fauna in the uppermost Cretaceous of Hungary; with a description of a new tortoise (Kallokibotion), Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 74, 100-116

Nopcsa B. F. (1928) Palaeontological notes on reptiles. V. On the skull of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur Euoplocephalus, Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 1 1, 1-54

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Danilov I. G., Parham J. F. (2008) A reassessment of some poorly known turtles from the Middle Jurassic of China, with comments on the antiquity of extant turtles, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 2, 306-318

Anquetin J. (2012) Reassessment of the phylogenetic interrelationships of basal turtles (Testudinata), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 1, 3-45 doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.558928

Pérez-García A., Murelaga X. (2013) Camerochelys vilanovai gen. et sp. nov., a new pan-cryptodiran turtle in the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Range (Spain), Cretaceous Research 41, 143-149 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.12.002

Sterli J., de la Fuente M. S. (2013) New evidence from the Palaeocene of Patagonia (Argentina) on the evolution and palaeo-biogeography of Meiolaniformes (Testudinata, new taxon name), Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 7, 835-852 doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.708674

de la Fuente M. S., Sterli J., et al (2014) Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, Springer Earth System Sciences doi:0.1007/978-3-319-00518-8

Sterli J., de la Fuente M. S., et al (2015) A new turtle from the Palaeogene of Patagonia (Argentina) sheds new light on the diversity and evolution of the bizarre clade of horned turtles (Meiolaniidae, Testudinata), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174, 519-548

Joyce W. G. (2017) A Review of the Fossil Record of Basal Mesozoic Turtles, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 1, 65-113 doi:10.3374/014.058.0105

Pérez-García A., Codrea V. (2017) New insights on the anatomy and systematics of Kallokibotion Nopcsa, 1923, the enigmatic uppermost Cretaceous basal turtle (stem Testudines) from Transylvania, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182 2, 419-443

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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