COLORADO

KIOWA COUNTY

1/2 M S OF RAILWAY STATION AT BELVIDERE

KIOWA SHALES

COMANCHEAN

LOWER CASHENRANCHIAN AGE

EARLY TO MIDDLE ALBIAN STAGE

MIDDLE GALLIC SUBEPOCH

UPPER EARLY CRETACEOUS EPOCH

EARLY CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: CHELONOMORPHA KUHN, 1960

SUPERCOHORT: TESTUDINES LINNAEUS, 1758

COHORT: CASICHELYDIA emend GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

MAGANORDER: CRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

SUPERORDER: SELMACRYPTODIRA GAFFNEY, HUTCHISON, JENKINS & MEEKR, 1987

GRANDORDER: PLEUROSTERNOIDEA GAFFNEY & MEYLAN, 1988

Superfamily: PLEUROSTERNIDEA Cope, 1868 (sensu Hay, 1893)

Family: PLEUROSTERNIDAE Cope, 1868

Incertae sedis

Non Glyptops, *G. belviderensis
= Plesiochelys belviderensis