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Stigmochelys crassa
Taxonomy
Testudo crassa was named by Andrews (1914). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Karungu, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in Kenya.
It was recombined as Geochelone crassa by Meylan and Auffenberg (1986); it was recombined as Stigmochelys crassa by Georgalis et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Geochelone crassa by Meylan and Auffenberg (1986); it was recombined as Stigmochelys crassa by Georgalis et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Testudo crassa Andrews |
| 1986 | Geochelone crassa Meylan and Auffenberg p. 281 |
| 2021 | Stigmochelys crassa Georgalis et al. |
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†Stigmochelys crassa Andrews 1914
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. L. Georgalis et al. 2021 | Stigmochelys crassa can be diagnosed as a member of Testudinidae, Geochelona, and Stigmochelys by the full list of shell characters provided for these clades above. Stigmochelys crassa can be differentiated from other species of Stigmochelys by its large size (plastron length exceeding 70 cm), pectorals with maximum width at the midline and narrowing considerably on either side of the midline, gulars crossing the entoplastron, pectorals not reaching the entoplastron, and longer hyoplastra. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Miocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 23.04000 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Miocene | Kenya | Testudo crassa (type locality: 146600) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Kenya | Geochelone crassa (232486) | |
| Zanclean | Kenya (Turkana District) | Geochelone sp. (21336) |