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Melanochelys tapani
Discussion
Etymology. The specific name is in honour of the late Prof. Tapan Roy Chowdhury of the Indian Statistical Institute, the distinguished teacher and researcher of Indian fossils, who established a school of vertebrate palaeontologists in India.
Taxonomy
Melanochelys tapani was named by Garbin et al. (2020). Its type specimen is BMNH 39839, a shell (a near complete fossil shell), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Siwalik Hills, which is in a Pliocene/Pleistocene fluvial horizon in the Pinjor Formation of Pakistan.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2020 | Melanochelys tapani Garbin et al. p. 47 fig. 32 |
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†Melanochelys tapani Garbin et al. 2020
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| R. Garbin et al. 2020 | Melanochelys tapani can be differentiated from other Melanochelys species by the following combination of characters: presence of three carapacial keels, a highly domed shell, hexagonal second to fourth vertebrals that are wider than long, and a large cervical scute. |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.77400 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Pakistan | Nicoria tricarinata (type locality: 92070) |