Taphrosphys
Taphrosphys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | †Bothremydidae |
Tribe: | †Taphrosphyini |
Subtribe: | †Taphrosphyina |
Genus: | †Taphrosphys Cope, 1869 |
Type species | |
Platemys sulcatus Leidy, 1856
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Species | |
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Taphrosphys is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered Angola, Morocco and the United States. The genus consists of type species Platemys sulcatus (combinatio nova T. sulcatus), T. ippolitoi, T. congolensis, and the dubious T. dares.
Discovery
The holotype of Taphrosphys was discovered in New Jersey.
Categories:
- Bothremydidae
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Late Cretaceous turtles
- Maastrichtian life
- Paleocene life
- Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary
- Fossils of the United States
- Fossils of Angola
- Fossils of Morocco
- Cretaceous North America
- Cretaceous Africa
- Fossil taxa described in 1865
- Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
- Prehistoric turtle stubs