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Shachemys ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	9314709	https://www.gbif.org/species/9314709
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	197947	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=197947

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Adocidae : Shachemys

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
superfamily	Trionychoidea	Fitzinger 1826
family	Adocidae	Cope 1869
genus	Shachemys	Kuznetzov 1976

Scientific Name

Shachemys Kuznetzov, 1976

Name Published In

Paleont. Zh. 1976 (4)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Shachemys	genus	belongs to Adocidae	stated without evidence	Sukhanov, 2000
Shachemys	genus	belongs to Shachemydinae	stated with evidence	de Lapparent de Broin, 2004
Shachemys	genus	belongs to Adocidae	stated without evidence	Syromyatnikova and Danilov, 2009
Shachemys	genus	belongs to Adocidae	stated with evidence	Danilov et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

129 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

85.8 - 70.6 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)

I. G. Danilov, V. B. Sukhanov, and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2011. New Asiatic materials on turtles of the family Adocidae with a review of the adocid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 315(2):101-132

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Shachemys ancestralis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Shachemys baibolatica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	9	86.3 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Shachemys laosiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1976	Shachemys Kuznetsov
2000	Shachemys Sukhanov p. 333
2004	Shachemys de Lapparent de Broin pp. 392-393
2009	Shachemys Syromyatnikova and Danilov p. 75
2011	Shachemys Danilov et al. p. 116
2012	Shachemys Syromyatnikova et al.
2013	Shachemys Syromyatnikova and Danilov

References

Danilov I. G., Sukhanov V. B., et al (2011) New Asiatic materials on turtles of the family Adocidae with a review of the adocid record in Asia, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 315 2, 101-132

Sukhanov V. B. (2000) Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia, The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, 309-367

de Lapparent de Broin F. (2004) A new Shachemydinae (Chelonii, Cryptodira) from the Lower Cretaceous of Laos: preliminary data, Comptes Rendus Palevol 3, 387-396 doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2004.05.004

Syromyatnikova E. V., Danilov I. G. (2009) New material and a revision of turtles of the genus Adocus (Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of middle Asia and Kazakhstan, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 313 1, 74-94

Syromyatnikova E. V., Danilov I. G. (2013) New material and phylogenetic position of Adocus bostobensis, a poorly known adocid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan, Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 317 2, 195-201

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - 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

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

Paleont. Zh. 1976 (4) - 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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