Titanochelon bolivari

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudinoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Familia: Testudinidae
Genus: †Titanochelon
Species: †Titanochelon bolivari

Name

Titanochelon bolivari (Hernández-Pacheco 1917)

• Lectotype: MNCN Alcalá 2 see Appendix 1 of Pérez-García & Vlachos (2014)
• Type locality: Cerro del Viso, in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain).

Synonymy

• Testudo bolivari Hernández-Pacheco 1917
  • Testudo richardi Bergounioux 1938
  • Ergilemys bolivari Chkhikvadze 1972
  • Ergilemys richardi Chkhikvadze 1972
  • Geochelone (Geochelone) bolivari Auffenberg 1974
  • Geochelone (Geochelone) richardi Auffenberg 1974
  • Geochelone (Ergilemys) bolivari Mlynarski 1976
  • Geochelone (Ergilemys) richardi Mlynarski 1976
  • Geochelone bolivari Alberdi et al. 1981
  • Cheirogaster richardi Bourgat & Bour 1983
  • Cheirogaster bolivari Bourgat & Bour 1983
  • Geochelone richardi Jiménez Fuentes 1984
  • Geochelone (s.l.) bolivari Jiménez Fuentes 1985
  • Geochelone (s.l.) richardi Jiménez Fuentes 1985
  • Cheirogaster (s.l.) richardi Jiménez Fuentes 1985
  • Cheirogaster (s.l.) bolivari Jiménez Fuentes et al. 1986
  • Centrochelys bolivari Chkhikvadze 1989a, b
  • Centrochelys richardi Chkhikvadze 1989a, b
  • Cheirogaster bolivari Vlachos et al. 2014
  • Titanochelon bolivari Pérez-García & Vlachos 2014

References

• Hernández-Pacheco E. 1917. El problema de la investigación científica en España. Asociación Española para el Progreso de las Ciencias 2: 63–93.
• Pérez-García, A. & Vlachos, E. 2014. New generic proposal for the European Neogene large testudinids (Cryptodira) and the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the medium and large representatives of the European Cenozoic record. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 653–719. pdf Reference page. 
• Turtle Extinctions Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., Thomson, S., Georgalis, G., Karl, H.-V., Danilov, I.G., Takahashi, A., de la Fuente, M.S., Bourque, J.R., Delfino, M., Bour, R., Iverson, J.B., Shaffer, H.B., and van Dijk, P.P.). 2015. Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66. Download