Glyptops

Taxobox
Name = "Glyptops"
fossil_range = Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Testudines
subordo = Cryptodira
familia = Pleurosternidae
genus = "Glyptops"
genus_authority = Marsh, 1890
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"G. plicatulus" (type)
Cope, 1877
*"G. caelatus"
Hay, 1908
*"G. ornatus"
Marsh "et al"., 1988
*"G. pervicax"
Hay, 1908
*"G. utahensis"
Gilmore, 1916

"Glyptops" (Greek for "grooved face") is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle dating from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods 155 to 99 m.y.a. Fossils have been found in South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas from both the Morrison and Cedar Mountain formations. The type species is "G. plicatulus", which was previously named "Compsemys plicatulus" by Edward Drinker Cope.

References

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=37625&is_real_user=1 "Glyptops"] at The Paleobiology Database