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Solitudo robusta
Taxonomy
Testudo robusta was named by Leith-Adams (1877). Its type specimen is BMNH, a set of limb elements, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Zebbug Cave, which is in a Pleistocene cave horizon in Malta. It is the type species of Solitudo.
It was considered a nomen vanum by Pérez-García and Vlachos (2014); it was recombined as Solitudo robusta by Valenti et al. (2022).
It was considered a nomen vanum by Pérez-García and Vlachos (2014); it was recombined as Solitudo robusta by Valenti et al. (2022).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1877 | Testudo robusta Leith-Adams p. 73 |
| 1877 | Testudo spratti Leith-Adams p. 186 |
| 1889 | Testudo robusta Lydekker p. 73 |
| 1889 | Testudo spratti Lydekker p. 74 |
| 1913 | Testudo robustissima Tagliaferro |
| 2022 | Solitudo robusta Valenti et al. |
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†Solitudo robusta Leith-Adams 1877
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Invalid names: Testudo robustissima Tagliaferro 1913 [synonym], Testudo spratti Leith-Adams 1877 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Valenti et al. 2022 | Members of Solitudo belong to Testudinidae because of the ventral fusion of the trochanters of the femur. However, Solitudo species show an incomplete fusion of the trochanters dorsally, in contrast to other testudinid genera in which the trochanters are connected proximally via a rounded ridge. Furthermore, members of Solitudo have femurs that are slender, with a femoral head that is narrower than the combined anteroposterior width of the trochanters and an oblique orientation compared to the anteroposterior plane between 25°–45°, in contrast to other genera with relatively massive femora and broad and less oblique femoral heads, forming an angle that is less than 25° with the anteroposterior plane. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Age range: Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pleistocene | Malta | Testudo robusta, Testudo spratti (type locality: 190860) Testudo robustissima (190862) |