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Kirgizemys
Taxonomy
Kirgizemys was named by Nessov and Khozatsky (1973).
It was assigned to Macrobaeninae by Nessov (1984); to Toxochelyinae by Weems (1988); to Durocryptodira by Danilov and Parham (2008); to Macrobaenidae by Sukhanov (2000), Parham and Hutchison (2003), Danilov et al. (2006), Lee et al. (2009), Brinkman et al. (2010) and Brinkman et al. (2013); and to Sinemydidae by Zhou and Rabi (2015).
It was assigned to Macrobaeninae by Nessov (1984); to Toxochelyinae by Weems (1988); to Durocryptodira by Danilov and Parham (2008); to Macrobaenidae by Sukhanov (2000), Parham and Hutchison (2003), Danilov et al. (2006), Lee et al. (2009), Brinkman et al. (2010) and Brinkman et al. (2013); and to Sinemydidae by Zhou and Rabi (2015).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1973 | Kirgizemys Nessov and Khozatsky |
| 1984 | Kirgizemys Nessov p. 216 |
| 1988 | Kirgizemys Weems p. 141 figs. Table 2 |
| 2000 | Kirgizemys Sukhanov p. 324 |
| 2003 | Kirgizemys Parham and Hutchison p. 784 |
| 2006 | Kirgizemys Danilov et al. pp. 56-57 |
| 2008 | Kirgizemys Danilov and Parham |
| 2009 | Kirgizemys Lee et al. p. 1288 |
| 2010 | Kirgizemys Brinkman et al. |
| 2013 | Kirgizemys Brinkman et al. |
| 2015 | Kirgizemys Zhou and Rabi |
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G. †Kirgizemys Nessov and Khozatsky 1973
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†Kirgizemys dmitrievi Nessov and Khozatskii 1981
†Kirgizemys exaratus Nessov and Khozatskii 1981
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| I. G. Danilov et al. 2006 | A ‘macrobaenid’ with the following characters: medium-sized (25 – 35 cm in the shell length) turtles; skull with a moderately developed upper temporal emargination, reaching anterior end of the otic capsule; nasals present; prefrontals contacting at the midline; jugal is a narrow bar; triturating surface narrow to moderately wide; foramen palatinum posterius moderate in size; foramen basisphenoidale present; posterolateral parts of the basisphenoid covered with medial phlanges of pterygoid; pterygoid-basioccipital contact present; canalis caroticus internus distant from the basisphenoid/pterygoid suture and floored by pterygoid posteriorly; sellae turcica reduced or not; shell oval-shaped with small nuchal emargination; nuchal restricted to the vertebral 1 scute; preneural absent; nine (rarely eight) neurals; plastron without medial fontanelles and plastral lobes not strongly narrowed; cervical scute wide; vertebral scutes 2-3 as long as or longer than wide; formula of cervical vertebrae - 1(2(3(4)5)6)7)8). |