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Cabindachelys landanensis
Discussion
The species name has been registered in ZooBank under LSID. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:65589F4D-CECB-498C-8C2E-09F30E6D1B83 Named for the town of Landana, near the locality where the type specimen was collected
Taxonomy
Cabindachelys landanensis was named by Myers et al. (2018). Its type specimen is MGUAN–PA 298, a partial skull (almost complete skull (Figs 3, 4) and left first branchial horn of the hyoid (Fig. 5)), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is PaleoAngola locality Landana 1, which is in a Selandian coastal sandstone in the Landana Formation of Angola. It is the type species of Cabindachelys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2018 | Cabindachelys landanensis Myers et al. |
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†Cabindachelys landanensis Myers et al. 2018
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| T. S. Myers et al. 2018 | Distinguished from other pan-cheloniids by the presence of a foramen palatinum posterius (Ch. 66), a vomer with a dorsal plate longer than the ventral plate, and a deep posterior emargination of the secondary palate/triturating surface that extends well anterior of the subtemporal fenestrae. Differentiated from Carolinochelys wilsoni, Eochelone brabantica, Procolpochelys grandaeva and Toxochelys latiremis by presence of a secondary palate (Ch. 40); Erquelinnesia gosseleti, Euclastes acutirostris and Euclastes wielandi by less extensive secondary palate and long, slender dorsal plate of vomer; Allopleuron hoffmanni, Puppigerus camperi, Tasbacka ouledabdounensis and Tasbacka aldabergeni by lack of elongated skull and pointed snout; Itilochelys rasstrigin by shallow cheek emargination, vomer with a shorter ventral plate, and a larger palatine contribution to triturating surface; Ctenochelys stenoporus by a fully-developed secondary palate; Argillochelys africana by frontal contribution to orbital margin (Ch. 10); Argillochelys africana, Argillochelys cuneiceps, Ashleychelys palmeri, Carolinochelys wilsoni and Pacifichelys spp. by dorsolateral orientation of the orbits (Ch. 12); and from Argillochelys africana, Argil- lochelys cuneiceps, Ctenochelys stenoporus, Euclastes acu- tirostris, Euclastes platyops, Euclastes wielandi, Itilochelys rasstrigin, Mexichelys coahuilaensis and Pacifichelys spp. by a palatine contribution to the triturating surface that is less than 30% of the width of the triturating surface (Ch. 39). |
Measurements
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||