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Stigmochelys brachygularis
Taxonomy
Geochelone (Geochelone) brachygularis was named by Meylan and Auffenberg (1987). Its type specimen is LAET 5493, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was recombined as Stigmochelys brachygularis by Harrison (2011), Georgalis et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Stigmochelys brachygularis by Harrison (2011), Georgalis et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1987 | Geochelone (Geochelone) brachygularis Meylan and Auffenberg p. 66 |
| 2011 | Stigmochelys brachygularis Harrison |
| 2021 | Stigmochelys brachygularis Georgalis et al. |
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†Stigmochelys brachygularis Meylan and Auffenberg 1987
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| G. L. Georgalis et al. 2021 | Stigmochelys brachygularis can be diagnosed as a
member of Testudinidae, Geochelona, and Stigmochelys by the full list of shell characters provided for these clades above. Stigmochelys brachygularis can be differentiated from other species of Stigmochelys by the combination of the following features: medium size (carapace length around 40–50 cm), peripherals not relatively convex, short and narrow pygal and suprapygals, moderately-sized epiplastral lip (but still much higher than Stigmochelys pardalis), small xiphiplastra, and anal notch narrower and V-shaped. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Gelasian or 3.60000 to 1.80000 Ma
Collections (10 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Pliocene | Tanzania (Eastern Drift Valley) | Geochelone brachygularis (32050) | |
| Piacenzian | Tanzania | Geochelone brachygularis (21795 21798 21799 21800 21810 21812 21813 21831) | |
| Gelasian | Tanzania | Geochelone brachygularis (21816) |