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Lytoloma

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4818877	https://www.gbif.org/species/4818877
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	231890	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=231890

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Thalassemydidae : Lytoloma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Cheloniidae : Lytoloma

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	Lytoloma	Cope 1870

Scientific Name

Lytoloma Cope, 1870

Name Published In

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

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Chelydrinae	stated with evidence	Cope, 1870
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Propleuridae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1884
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Chelonidae	stated without evidence	Lydekker, 1889
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Thalassemydidae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Thalassemydidae	stated with evidence	Hay, 1908
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Osteopyginae	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Lytoloma	genus	belongs to Cheloniidae	stated with evidence	Hirayama and Tong, 2003

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (22%)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 100 Ma
Cretaceous

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Lytoloma bruxelliensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	47.8 Ma Eocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Lytoloma cantabrigiense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Lytoloma crassa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Lytoloma elegans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Lytoloma gosseleti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Lytoloma jeanesii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Lytoloma planimentum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Lytoloma wemmeliensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pachyrhynchus gosseleti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1870	Lytoloma Cope p. 144
1884	Lytoloma Cope
1889	Lytoloma Lydekker pp. 51-53
1902	Lytoloma Hay p. 441
1908	Lytoloma Hay p. 154
1966	Lytoloma Kuhn p. 28
2003	Lytoloma Hirayama and Tong

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

Lydekker R. , Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia, 1-239

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

Hay O. P. (1908) The fossil turtles of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75, 1-568

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Hirayama R., Tong H. (2003) Osteopygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco, Palaeontology 46 5, 845-856

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

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

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

GBIF/Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Paleoportal DiGIR Service (VP) - 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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