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Alatochelon myrteum
Discussion
Derivation of name. From the Latin word for myrtle, which is hypothesized as the ancient name of Murcia, and refers to the Myrtus, a plant distributed in both southern Europe and the north of Africa.
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Taxonomy
Alatochelon myrteum was named by Pérez-García et al. (2020). Its type specimen is T-3-BC-MU, a partial shell (a partial shell including the articulate anterior region of both the carapace and the plastron), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Puerto de la Cadena, which is in a Pliocene floodplain sandstone in the Cigarron Formation of Spain. It is the type species of Alatochelon.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2020 | Alatochelon myrteum Pérez-García et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Alatochelon myrteum Pérez-García et al. 2020
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ernst and Barbour 1989, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Early/Lower Pliocene or 5.33300 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pliocene | Spain (Murcia) | Testudinidae indet. (type locality: 185681) |