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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : Echmatemys : Echmatemys wyomingensis |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Geoemydidae : Echmatemys : Echmatemys wyomingensis |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Echmatemys |
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| Scientific Name | Echmatemys wyomingensis Leidy, 1869 |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Echmatemys wyomingensis | species | belongs to Echmatemys | stated with evidence | Hay, 1908 | | Echmatemys wyomingensis | species | belongs to Echmatemys | stated without evidence | Gilmore, 1945 | | Echmatemys wyomingensis | species | belongs to Echmatemys | stated with evidence | Zonneveld et al., 2000 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 55.8 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 46.2 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene |
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| Environment | freshwater (based on Echmatemys) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Diet | herbivore (based on Echmatemys) |
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| Reproduction | oviparous (based on Cryptodira) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. Leidy. 1869. Notice of some extinct vertebrates from Wyoming and Dakota. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:63-67 |
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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1904 | Chrysemys wyomingensis Hay |
| 1908 | Echmatemys wyomingensis Hay pp. 270-271 figs. Plate 37, figs. II-13; plate 38, fig. 10; plate 40, fig. 1; plate 41, figs, i, 2; text-figs. 337-345 |
| 1908 | Baptemys fluviatilis Hay p. 277 figs. Plate 42, figs. I, 2; teit-figs. 350, 351 |
| 1908 | Echmatemys uintensis Hay pp. 342-343 |
| 1915 | Echmatemys uintensis Gilmore p. 127 |
| 1945 | Echmatemys wyomingensis Gilmore p. 105 |
| 2000 | Echmatemys wyomingensis Zonneveld et al. |
| 2015 | Baptemys wyomingensis Bourque et al. |
| 2016 | Baptemys wyomingensis Joyce and Bourque |
| 2018 | Echmatemys wyomingensis Vlachos |
| Leidy J. Notice of some extinct vertebrates from Wyoming and Dakota, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21, 63-67 |
| 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 |
| Leidy J. [Remarks on Poikilopleuron valens, Clidastes intermedius, Macrosaurus proriger, Baptemys wyomingensis, and Emys stevensonianus], Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 22 1, 3-5 |
| Cope E. D. On the extinct Vertebrata of the Eocene of Wyoming observed by the Expedition of 1872, with notes on the geology, Sixth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, 545-649 |
| Leidy J. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1, 1-358 |
| Osborn H. F., Scott W. B., et al Palaeontological Report of the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877, Contributions from the Museum of Geology and Archæology of Princeton College 1, 1-146 |
| Cope E. D. The Reptiles of the American Eocene, The American Naturalist 16 12, 979-993 |
| 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 |
| Hay O. P. (1904) On some fossil turtles belonging to the Marsh Collection in Yale University Museum, American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 18 106, 261-276 |
| Hay O. P. (1908) The fossil turtles of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75, 1-568 |
| Gilmore C. W. (1915) The fossil turtles of the Uinta Formation, Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 7 2, 101-161 |
| Gilmore C. W. (1945) A slab of fossil turtles from Eocene of Wyoming, with notes on the genus Echmatemys, American Journal of Science 243 3, 102-107 |
| Zonneveld J.-P., Gunnell G. F., et al (2000) Early Eocene fossil vertebrates from the southwestern Green River Basin, Lincoln and Uinta counties, Wyoming, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 2, 369-386 |
| Bourque J. R., Hutchison J. H., et al (2015) A new dermatemydid (Testudines, Kinosternoidea) from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Willwood Formation, southeastern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e905481, 1-19 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.905481 |
| Joyce W. G., Bourque J. R. (2016) A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Kinosternoidea, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57 1, 57-95 |
| Vlachos E. (2018) A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea, Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 59 1, 3-94 |
| J.-P. Zonneveld, G. F. Gunnell, W. S. Bartels (2000) Early Eocene fossil vertebrates from the southwestern Green River Basin, Lincoln and Uinta counties, Wyoming: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2: 369--386 - via Catalogue of Life |
Echmatemys wyomingensis ✝
