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Banhxeochelys trani
Discussion
The species name honours Dang Ngoc Tran, retired director of the International Cooperation Division of the Department of Geology and Minerals of Vietnam, for his untiring support of the excavations carried out by teams from the University of Tubingen from 2009 to 2012.
Taxonomy
Banhxeochelys trani was named by Garbin et al. (2019). Its type specimen is GPIT/RE/09760, a partial shell (a nearly complete shell lacking left peripherals VII–XI, left costals VII and VIII, the pygal, part of right peripherals VI and VII, and a part of the left xiph), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Na Duong Mine layer 80 , which is in a Bartonian/Priabonian lacustrine - large lignite in the Na Duong Formation of Vietnam. It is the type species of Banhxeochelys.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2019 | Banhxeochelys trani Garbin et al. |
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†Banhxeochelys trani Garbin et al. 2019
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. C. Garbin et al. 2019 | The following combination of characters is unique to this taxon: neural IV octagonal, neural V square, the remaining neurals hexagonal with anterior short-sides, two lateral keels on the carapace in juveniles (Fig. 2), a broad trapezoidal cervical scute (Figs. 2–4), wide suprapygal II that almost reaches peripheral X (Fig. 4), entoplastron intersected anteriorly by gularohumeral sulcus (Figs. 2 and 3) and posteriorly by humeropectoral sulcus (Figs. 3 and 5), and short epiplastral lip in visceral view (Fig. 6). |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Bartonian to the top of the Priabonian or 41.03000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Bartonian - Priabonian | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Geoemydidae indet. (type locality: 169420) |