Anosteira pulchra

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Trionychoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Cladus: Sauropsida
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Cladus: Diapsida
Cladus: Neodiapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Cladus: Pantestudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Trionychoidea

Familia: Carettochelyidae
Subfamilia: Anosteirinae
Genus: Anosteira
Species: Anosteira pulchra

Name

  • Anosteira pulchra Clarke 1932
    • Holotype: Carnegie Museum 11808
    • Type locality: Near Ouray, Uinta County, Utah, USA; Uinta Formation, Uintan North American land mammal age (NALMA), middle Eocene.

References

  • Leidy, J. 1871. Remarks on some extinct turtles from Wyoming Territory. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1871:102–103.
  • Clark, J. 1932. A new anosteirid from the Uinta Eocene. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 21:161–170.
  • Joyce, WG. 2014 A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys. Bulletin of the Peapody Museum of Natural History. 55(1):3-33.
  • Joyce, WG., Volpato, V. S., and Rollot, Y. 2018. The skull of the carettochelyid turtle Anosteira pulchra from the Eocene (Uintan) of Wyoming and the carotid canal system of carettochelyid turtles. Foss. Rec 21:301–310 DOI: 10.5194/fr-21-301-2018
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