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Pelusios rusingae
Taxonomy
Pelusios rusingae was named by Williams (1954). Its type specimen is Coryndon Museum Ru F3617, a partial shell (partial carapace and plastron), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rusinga Island, which is in a Burdigalian terrestrial horizon in Kenya.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1954 | Pelusios rusingae Williams |
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†Pelusios rusingae Williams 1954
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. E. Williams 1954 | A Pelusios belonging to the adansonii - gabonensis section of the genus, distinguished by the following combination of characters: a very depressed shell (height included in length about four times); the carapace expanded posteriorly; the vertebral region very shallowly excavated, quite without keel; first vertebral scute much larger than vertebral 2 and wider than long; vertebrals 2, 3, and 4 slightly longer than wide; mesoplastra extremely narrowed medially, barely meeting. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Uetz 2005, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Burdigalian or 20.44000 to 15.97000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Burdigalian | Kenya | Pelusios rusingae (type locality: 21725) |