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Titanochelon schleichi
Discussion
The publication has been registered in the Zoobank under the LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F5A50CF0-9DBC-4E6B- 9C0A-A380731DBB09, whereas the species under the LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:85F46987-054D-46B1- 8193-245BD9B1917F.
Taxonomy
Titanochelon schleichi was named by Pappa et al. (2023). Its type specimen is SNSB-BSPG 1959 II 2033, a partial skeleton (a partial skeleton comprising most of the carapace, the plastron, and some appendicu- lar elements (scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, carpal ele- ments, tibia, fi), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Sandelzhausen gravel pit, which is in a Langhian fluvial-lacustrine marl/mudstone in the Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation of Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2023 | Titanochelon schleichi Pappa et al. figs. 2-5 |
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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.
†Titanochelon schleichi Pappa et al. 2023
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| I. Pappa et al. 2023 | Titanochelon schleichi sp. nov. differs from all other Titanochelon spp. (at least their male individuals) because of the unique and autapomorphic morphology of the epiplastral lip, that is quite long and thickened, with a flat dorsal surface, an extensive posterior pro- trusion creating a deep gular pocket, and an even more extensive protrusion anteriorly—caused at the limit of the gularo-humeral sulci—with lateral sides that are parallel to each other and an anterior border that is almost straight without any significant notch. It could be further distinguished from other Titano- chelon spp. (male individuals) on the following combi- nation of characters: domed shape, wide vertebrals, gulars that do not reach the entoplastron, wide xiphi- plastra without an anal notch, wide angle between the scapula and the acromion, fused astragalocalca- neum with a well-developed constriction of the calcaneum. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Ernst and Barbour 1989, Carroll 1988 | |||||