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Geoemyda

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Geoemyda ptychogastroides

Mücheln, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Geoemyda ptychogastroides

Mücheln, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Geoemyda ptychogastroides

Mücheln, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Description

Geoemyda is a genus of freshwater turtles in the family Geoemydidae (formerly Bataguridae). It contains these species:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoemyda, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2441451	https://www.gbif.org/species/2441451
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37726	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37726

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : Geoemyda

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Cryptodira	Cope 1868
-	Pantestudinoidea	Joyce et al. 2004
superfamily	Testudinoidea	Gray 1825
-	Pangeoemydidae	Joyce 2007
family	Geoemydidae	Theobald 1868
genus	Geoemyda	Gray 1834

Scientific Name

Geoemyda Gray, 1834

Name Published In

Gray, John E. 1834. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1834: 99–101.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Emydidae	stated without evidence	Shikama, 1956
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Batagurinae	stated with evidence	Bickham, 1975
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Batagurinae	stated without evidence	Mlynarski, 1984
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Emydidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Batagurinae	stated without evidence	Ernst and Barbour, 1989
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Emydidae	stated without evidence	Frank and Ramus, 1996
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Geoemydidae	stated without evidence	Takahashi et al., 2007
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Geoemydidae	stated with evidence	Claude et al., 2012
Geoemyda	genus	belongs to Geoemydinae	stated without evidence	van Dijk et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

47.8 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Environment

freshwater (based on Cryptodira)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Cryptodira)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Cryptodira)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Common Name(s)

Leaf Turtles

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoemyda

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Geoemyda (Geoliemys) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Geoemyda amamiensis ✝ species	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Geoemyda eureia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	16.0 Ma Miocene	3.20 Ma Pliocene
Geoemyda headonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	37.2 Ma Eocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Geoemyda japonica species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Geoemyda malustensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Geoemyda mossoczyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	3.20 Ma Pliocene	3.20 Ma Pliocene
Geoemyda pidoplickai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	4.90 Ma Pliocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene
Geoemyda ptychogastroides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Geoemyda spengleri species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Geoemyda striata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Geoemyda takasago species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Geomyda Gray, 1834	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : *Geomyda*
Geoemys Bonaparte, 1838	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : *Geoemys*
Nicoria Gray, 1856	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : *Nicoria*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1834	Geoemyda Gray
1956	Geomyda Shikama p. 37
1969	Geoemyda Deraniyagala p. 10
1975	Geomyda Bickham p. 203
1984	Geoemyda Mlynarski
1988	Geoemyda Carroll

Year	Name and Author
1989	Geoemyda Ernst and Barbour
1996	Geoemyda Frank and Ramus
2007	Geoemyda Takahashi et al.
2012	Geoemyda Claude et al.
2014	Geoemyda van Dijk et al.

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Shikama T. (1956) Miocene Chelonia of Japan, Sci. Rept. Yokohama Nation. Univ 2 5, 35-62

Deraniyagala P. E. P. (1969) A Miocene vertebrate faunule from the Malu member of Ceylon, Spolia Zeylanica 31 II, 1-17

Bickham J. W. (1975) A Cytosystematic Study of Turtles in the Genera Clemmys, Mauremys and Sacalia, Herpetologica 31 2, 198-204

Mlynarski Μ. (1984) Fossil Chelonians of Poland, Studia Geologica Salmanticensia, volumen especial 1 (Studia Palaeocheloniologica I) 1, 189-203

Ernst C. H., Barbour R. W. (1989) Turtles of the World, Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution Press

Frank N., Ramus E. (1996) A Complete Guide to Scientific and Common Names of Reptiles and Amphibians of the World, 1-377

Takahashi A., Kato T., et al (2007) A new species of the genus Geoemyda (Chelonii: Geoemydidae) from the upper Pleistocene of Tokunoshima Island, the Central Ryukyus, Japan, Current Herpetology 26 1, 1-11

Claude J., Zhang J.-Y., et al (2012) Geoemydid turtles from the Late Eocene Maoming basin, southern China, Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 183 6, 641-651

van Dijk P. P., Iverson J. B., et al (2014) Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status, Chelonian Research Monographs 5, 329-479

Turtle Taxonomy Working Group [van Dijk, P. P., J. Iverson, A. Rhodin, H. Shaffer, and R. Bour], 2014: Turtles of the World, 7th Edition: Annotated Checklist of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution with maps, and Conservation Status. Chelonian Research Monographs, no. 5, v. 7. 329-479. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Iverson, John B., 1992: null. A Revised Checklist with Distribution Maps of the Turtles of the World. xiii + 363. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

SN2000/Uetz, 1995-, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Uetz, 1995- - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1309 Geoemyda Gray, 1834, and Rhinoclemmys Fitzinger, 1835 (Reptilia, Testudines): conserved.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42, 152-153 (1985) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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