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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | † Paracryptodira |
| Family: | † Pleurosternidae |
| Genus: | †
Glyptops Marsh, 1890 |
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Glyptops is an extinct genus of pleurosternid freshwater turtle known from the Late Jurassic of North America.
Taxonomy
The type species, Glyptops plicatulus, was first described as Compsemys plicatulus by Edward Drinker Cope on the basis of AMNH 6099, a partial shell from the Late Jurassic ( Tithonian) aged Morrison Formation of Colorado. [1] In 1890, a partial skull, YPM 1784 (described from Como Bluff, Wyoming), was named Glyptops ornatus by Othniel Charles Marsh. [2] Later, Oliver Perry Hay recognized Compsemys plicatulus and Glyptops ornatus as being from the same species, hence the new combination G. plicatulus. [3] Another Morrison species of Glyptops, G. utahensis, was described from a complete shell (CM 3412) found at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. [4] Glyptops later became a wastebasket taxon to refer to isolated shell fragments with a finely sculpted surface texture. The type of Glyptops plicatulus was later judged to be a nomen dubium, due to it lacking any diagnostic characters, and Glyptops ornatus was made to be the only valid species. [5]
The species Glytops caelatus Hay, 1908 was described from the middle Cretaceous (late Aptian-early Albian) Arundel Formation of Maryland. However, it was later dismissed as a nomen dubium based on non-diagnostic remains. [6]
Description
The skull of Glyptops ornatus exhibit adaptions likely for suction feeding. [5]
References
- ^ E. D. Cope. 1877. On reptilian remains from the Dakota Beds of Colorado. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):193-196
- ^ O. C. Marsh. 1890. Notice of some extinct Testudinata. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 40:177-179
- ^ O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568.
- ^ C. W. Gilmore. 1916. Description of a new species of tortoise from the Jurassic of Utah. Annals of Carnegie Museum 10(1-2):7-12.
- ^ a b Joyce, Walter G.; Anquetin, Jérémy (October 2019). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Nonbaenid Turtles of the Clade Paracryptodira". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 60 (2): 129–155. doi: 10.3374/014.060.0204. ISSN 0079-032X. S2CID 203780510.
- ^ E. S. Gaffney. 1979. The Jurassic turtles of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 162(3):95-135
- Glyptops at The Paleobiology Database
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