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Brachyopsemys
Taxonomy
Brachyopsemys was named by Tong and Meylan (2013). Its type is Brachyopsemys tingitana.
It was assigned to Sandownidae by Tong and Meylan (2013).
It was assigned to Sandownidae by Tong and Meylan (2013).
Species
B. tingitana (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2013 | Brachyopsemys Tong and Meylan p. 188 |
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G. †Brachyopsemys Tong and Meylan 2013
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†Brachyopsemys tingitana Tong and Meylan 2013
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. Tong and P. Meylan 2013 | Skull broad and low, wider than long, rounded anteriorly in dorsal view, with a very extensive skull roof (more extensive than other sandownids), very shallow temporal emargination with parietal-squamosal contact; orbits facing anterolaterally, placed forward and closely spaced; large triturating surface with a pair of deep pits in the jugal (unique among cryptodires, seen also in the pleurodire family Bothremydidae); unique among turtles in having prefrontaljugal contact present below orbit excluding maxilla from orbit margin and a medial process of the jugal that forms a large, flat, horizontal, plate-like flange within the fossa temporalis inferior; unique among described members of the family Sandownidae in having the incisura columellae auris open. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005 | |||||