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Solitudo
Zoobank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:08DE006C-E90B-4605-9711-952D72904E5F.
Etymology: From the Latin word solitudo, feminine, third declension, meaning solitude, loneliness, in allusion to the insular isolation of these tortoises. Also, the termination -tudo alludes to the name Testudo and the testudinid affinities of this new taxon.
It was assigned to Testudinidae by Valenti et al. (2022).
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2022 | Solitudo Valenti 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.
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. Valenti et al. 2022 | Members of Solitudo belong to Testudinidae because of the ventral fusion of the trochanters of the femur. However, Solitudo species show an incomplete fusion of the trochanters dorsally, in contrast to other testudinid genera in which the trochanters are connected proximally via a rounded ridge. Furthermore, members of Solitudo have femurs that are slender, with a femoral head that is narrower than the combined anteroposterior width of the trochanters and an oblique orientation compared to the anteroposterior plane between 25°–45°, in contrast to other genera with relatively massive femora and broad and less oblique femoral heads, forming an angle that is less than 25° with the anteroposterior plane. |
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ernst and Barbour 1989, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene | Spain (Menorca) | Testudo gymnesica (200360) | |
| Pleistocene | Malta | Testudo robusta, Testudo spratti (190860) Testudo robustissima (190862) | |
| Pleistocene | Spain (Islas Baleares) | Testudo gymnesicus (36974) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Sicily) | S. sicula (226377) |