†Glyptops plicatulus Cope 1877 (turtle)
Reptilia - Testudines - Pleurosternidae
Alternative combination: Compsemys plicatulus
Synonyms: Glyptops ornatus Marsh 1890, Glyptops utahensis Gilmore 1916
Belongs to Glyptops according to A. Perez-Garcia and F. Ortega 2011
Sister taxon: Glyptops pervicax
Type specimens:
- Glyptops plicatulus: AMNH 6099, a partial shell (The principal parts present are one complete costal, apparently the third of the left side (plate 5, fig. i), the proximal end of what is regarded as the fifth ). Its type locality is Glyptops plicatulus type locality: presumably Garden Park near Caņon City, which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Morrison Formation of Colorado.
- Glyptops ornatus: YPM 1784, a skull (a laterally compressed skull without lower jaws). Its type locality is Quarry 9, Como Bluff (YPM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian fluvial-lacustrine mudstone/sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.
- Glyptops utahensis: CM 3412, a shell (a complete shell). Its type locality is Dinosaur National Monument Quarry (CM), which is in a Kimmeridgian/Tithonian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Utah.
Ecology: facultatively mobile amphibious