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Chelonia
Brongniart, 1800
(reptile)
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Entity:
[Sauria] (Clade)
..[Archosauromorpha] (Clade)
..†Atopodentatus (Genus)
..[†Choristodera] (Clade)
..[Crurotarsi] (Supercohort)
..[Lepidosauria] (Clade)
..[Lepidosauromorpha] (Subclass)
..[†Prolacertiformes]
..[†Sauropterygia]
..[Testudines]
..[Chelonia] (Class)
....[Casichelydia] (Order)
....[Cryptodira] (Order)
....[Pleurodira] (Order)
Authorship
Original name
:
Brongniart, 1800a: 81.
Subsequent spelling
:
Ross & Macartney, 1802. In Cuvier: tab. iii.
Variants
Former rank
:
Chelonia
(Subclass)
Brongniart, 1800
Ref:
J.T. Collins & T.W. Taggart, 2009
: 2.
[inferred]
Former rank
:
Chelonia
(Order)
Brongniart, 1800
Ref:
J.T. Collins & T.W. Taggart, 2009
: 2.
[inferred]
Former unranked name
:
Chelonia
(Clade)
Brongniart 1800 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988], nom. cl. inval.
Ref:
J.T. Collins & T.W. Taggart, 2009
: 2.
[inferred]
Synonyms
Accepted name
:
Testudinata
(Subclass)
Oppel, 1811
Ref:
M.J. Benton, 2015
: 438.
[implicit]
Junior subjective synonym
:
Testudines
(Subclass)
Wagler, 1830
Junior subjective synonym
:
Testudines
(Order)
Wagler, 1830
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