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Description

Puppigerus is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Eocene. It is known from finds in the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, and Uzbekistan.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4818791	https://www.gbif.org/species/4818791
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	36371	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36371

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Cheloniidae : Puppigerus

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
-	Pancryptodira	Joyce et al. 2004
superfamily	Chelonioidea	Baur 1893
family	Cheloniidae	Bonaparte 1832
genus	Puppigerus	Cope 1870

Scientific Name

Puppigerus Cope, 1870

Name Published In

Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., (N. S.) 14

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Cheloniidae	stated with evidence	Cope, 1870
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Testudinata	stated without evidence	Cope, 1872
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Cheloniidae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1884
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Cheloniidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Eocheloniinae	stated without evidence	Weems, 1988
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Eochelyinae	implied	Karl, 1996
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Chelonia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Cheloniidae	stated without evidence	Joyce et al., 2004
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Cheloniidae	stated with evidence	Tong et al., 2012
Puppigerus	genus	belongs to Pancheloniidae	stated without evidence	Weems, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 90 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Environment

marine (based on Chelonioidea)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Puppigerus breviceps ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Puppigerus camperi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	41.3 Ma Eocene
Puppigerus crassicostata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Puppigerus grandaevus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Puppigerus parvisecta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Eochelys Moody, 1968	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Cheloniidae : *Eochelys*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1870	Puppigerus Cope p. 235
1872	Puppigerus Cope p. 14
1884	Puppigerus Cope
1902	Puppigerus Hay p. 443
1968	Eochelys Moody
1988	Puppigerus Carroll
1988	Puppigerus Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2

Year	Name and Author
1996	Puppigerus Karl
2002	Puppigerus Sepkoski, Jr.
2004	Puppigerus Joyce et al.
2012	Puppigerus Tong et al. p. 635
2014	Puppigerus Weems
2014	Puppigerus de Lapparent de Broin et al.

References

Cope E. D. , Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14, 105-235

Cope E. D. List of the Reptilia of the Eocene formation of New Jersey, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 24 1, 14-18

Cope E. D. Testudinata, The Vertebrata of the Tertiary formations of the West. In: Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 3, 111-150

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

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

Weems R. E. (1988) Paleocene turtles from the Aquia and Brightseat Formations, with a discussion of their bearing on sea turtle evolution and phylogeny, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101 1, 109-145

Karl H.-V. (1996) Einige Bemerkungen über die fossilen Schildkröten (Reptilia, Testudines) des Bundeslandes Salzburg, Österreich [Some remarks on the fossil turtles (Reptilia, Testudines) from the federal country of Salzburg, Austria], Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 136, 389-426

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Joyce W. G., Parham J. F., et al (2004) Developing a protocol for the conversion of rank-based taxon names to phylogenetically defined clade names, as exemplified by turtles, Journal of Paleontology 78 5, 989-1013

Tong H., Hirayama R., et al (2012) Puppigerus camperi (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Ypresian (Early Eocene) of Ouled Abdoun basin, Morocco 183 6, 635-640 doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.635

Weems R. E. (2014) Paleogene chelonians from Maryland and Virginia, PaleoBios 31 1, 1-32

de Lapparent de Broin F., Bardet N., et al (2014) A strange new chelonioid turtle from the latest Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, Comptes Rendus Palevol 13 2, 87-95

GBIF/Paleo Database - 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

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., (N. S.) 14 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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