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Platyspondylia

Reptilia - Tropidophiidae

Taxonomy

Platyspondylia was named by Rage (1974).

It was assigned to Boidae by Rage (1974), Rage (1984), Carroll (1988); and to Tropidophiidae by Szyndlar et al. (2008), Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014).

Species

P. germanica, P. lepta, P. sudrei

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1974	Platyspondylia Rage
1984	Platyspondylia Rage p. 32
1988	Platyspondylia Carroll
2008	Platyspondylia Szyndlar et al. p. 400
2014	Platyspondylia Vianey-Liaud et al. p. 575

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Squamata	()
suborder	Ophidia	(Latreille 1804)
—	Serpentes	(Linnaeus 1758)
infraorder	Alethinophidia
—	Macrostomata
family	Tropidophiidae	Cope 1894
genus	Platyspondylia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Platyspondylia Rage 1974

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†Platyspondylia germanica Szyndlar and Rage 2003

†Platyspondylia lepta Rage 1974

†Platyspondylia sudrei Rage 1988

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Created:

2017-04-17 15:15:35

Modified:

2017-04-17 15:15:35

Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the MP 25 or 41.03000 to 23.04000 Ma

Collections (14 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	France (Quercy, Midi-Pyrenees Region)	P. sudrei (12840)
MP 22	33.9 - 27.3	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	P. sp. (118196)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	France	P. sp. (183381)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	France	P. lepta (60282) P. sp. (60215 60281)
MP 25	27.3 - 23.04	France (Quercy)	P. sp. (36717)
MP 25	27.3 - 23.04	France	P. sp. (60214)
MP 26	27.3 - 23.04	France (Gard)	P. sp. (172927)
MP 26	27.3 - 23.04	France (Quercy)	P. sp. (36718)
MP 28	27.3 - 23.04	France (Quercy)	P. lepta (36712 36715)
MP 28 - MP 30	27.3 - 23.04	Germany (Baden-Württemberg)	P. germanica (59126)
MP 30 - MN 1	27.3 - 22.4	Turkey (Anatolia)	P. sp. (182505)