Reptilia - Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Full reference: O. C. Marsh. 1890. Notice of some extinct Testudinata. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 40:177-179
Parent taxon: Pleurosternidae according to W. G. Joyce and J. Anquetin 2019
See also Anquetin 2012, Anquetin et al. 2009, Brinkman et al. 2000, Carroll 1988, Delair 1958, Gaffney 1972, Gaffney 1979, Hay 1902, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Joyce 2007, Karl et al. 2012, Lucas et al. 2006, Lyson and Joyce 2011, Marsh 1890, Milner 2004, Perea et al. 2014, Pérez-García 2012, Pérez-García et al. 2015, Pérez-García et al. 2008, Pérez-García and Ortega 2011, Pérez-García and Ortega 2011 and Yeh 1963
Sister taxa: Ballerstedtia, Desmemydinae, Desmemys, Dinochelys, Dorsetochelys, Pleurosternon, Riodevemys, Selenemys, Toremys, Uluops
Subtaxa: Glyptops ornatus Glyptops plicatulus
Type: Compsemys plicatulus
Ecology: facultatively mobile amphibious
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (1 collection), United States (7: Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Jurassic of United States (43: Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 51 collections each including a single occurrence
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