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Pelomedusa senutpickfordina

Reptilia - Testudines

Discussion

Etymology of the species: in honour to Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford.

Taxonomy
Pelomedusa senutpickfordina was named by de Lapparent de Broin (2008). Its type specimen is MSGN, LT Z’98 (1 to 29), a partial skeleton (partial dorsal carapace and plastron with a centrum of cervical vertebra and a partial right ilium, male.), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Langental, which is in a Miocene terrestrial marl in Namibia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Pelomedusa senutpickfordina de Lapparent de Broin

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
RankNameAuthor
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
—Testudinata(Oppel 1811)
orderTestudinesBatsch 1788
—Panpleurodira
genusPelomedusaWagler 1830
speciessenutpickfordina

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.

†Pelomedusa senutpickfordina de Lapparent de Broin 2008
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
F. de Lapparent de Broin 2008A species of Pelomedusa of moderate size identified by a male carapace ca. 153 mm long; characterized by: gulars overlapping the entoplastron; epiplastra together anteriorly wide and rounded, short up to the hyoplastron, with a short epiplastral symphysis, and widely obtuse anterior angle of the entoplastron; well rounded border of the anterior lobe, not trapezoidal. Posterior lobe with antero-lateral border of the xiphiplastra gently curved at the posterior femoral part: not angulated just anteriorly to the femoro-anal sulcus; the two postero-lateral borders of the xiphiplastra nearly parallel (below the anal scutes) slightly extroverted.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialuc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Modified: 2017-04-17 15:15:35
Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: Early/Lower Miocene or 23.03000 to 15.97000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Namibia Pelomedusa sp. (type locality: 70807)