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Prochelidella palomoi
Discussion
The species palomoi is in honor to Mr. Salvador Palomo, a retired technician of Museo Argentino Urquiza who helped to increase the knowledge of the vertebrate paleontology of the northern Neuqun province.
Taxonomy
Prochelidella palomoi was named by Maniel et al. (2022). Its type specimen is MAU-Pv-AG-452, a partial skeleton (A partially preserved skull; a left first costal bone; a left odd costal bone; a well-preserved plastron including both epiplastra, an entoplastron, a right hyo), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cañadón de Aguada Grande, which is in a Campanian/Campanian wet floodplain mudstone in the Anacleto Formation of Argentina.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2022 | Prochelidella palomoi Maniel et al. |
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†Prochelidella palomoi Maniel et al. 2022
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| I. J. Maniel et al. 2022 | Prochelidella palomoi can be diagnosed as a Pleurodira by the presence of pelvic girdle attached by suture to the shell. Prochelidella palomoi is referred as a member of Prochelidella by the presence of a welldeveloped retropterygoid foramen and a strongly developed attachment muscle area of the basisphenoid as can be observed in the holotype of Prochelidella buitreraensis. Differs from Prochelidella portezuelae and Prochelidella cerrobarcinae in the extension until the posterior region of the entoplastron of the gular scute. Differs from Prochelidella buitreraensis in the angled of the foramen nervi trigemini in lateral view, and a more acute angled of the axillary buttresses. |
Measurements
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| References: Ernst and Barbour 1989, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Campanian to the top of the Middle Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian | Argentina (Neuquén) | Prochelidella palomoi (type locality: 86439) |