Allaeochelys crassesculpta, Photo: Michael Lahanas
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Cladus: Archelosauria
Division: Pan-Testudines
Division: Testudinata
Ordo: Testudines
Subordo: Cryptodira
Superfamilia: Trionychoidea
Familia: Carettochelyidae
Subfamilia: Carettochelyinae
Genus: Allaeochelys
Species: Allaeochelys crassesculpta
Name
Allaeochelys crassesculpta Harrassowitz 1922
Holotype: HLMD 1461, nearly complete skeleton.
Type locality: Messel Pit, near the village of Messel, State of Hesse, Germany
Synonymy
Anosteira crassesculpta Harrassowitz 1922
Anosteira gracilis Gramann 1956
Allaeochelys crassesculpta Nessov 1976 (new combination)
Allaeochelys parayrei Karl and Müller 2008
Castresia munieri Karl and Müller 2008
Allaeochelys nouleti Karl and Müller 2008
Anosteira gracilis Karl and Müller 2008
References
Harrassowitz, H. 1922. Die Schildkrötengattung Anosteira von Messel bei Darmstadt und ihre stammesgeschichtliche Bedeutung. Abhandlungen der Hessischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 6:132–239.
Joyce, WG 2014. A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55(1):3-33
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