Titanochelon vitodurana

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 vitodurana

Name

• Titanochelon vitodurana (Biedermann) sec. Pérez-García & Vlachos 2014)
  • Holotype:
  • Type locality: Veltheim, near Winterthur (anterior quarry), which is in a Serravallian terrestrial sandstone/mudstone in Switzerland

Synonymy

• Testudo vitodurana Biedermann 1862
  • Cheirogaster vitodurana Karl 2013
  • Titanochelon vitodurana Pérez-García & Vlachos 2014

References

• W.G.A. Biedermann. 1862. Petrefakten aus der Umgegend von Winterthur. I. Schildkroten. 1-26
• H.-V. Karl. 2013. Die fossilen Schildkröten aus der Molasse von Oberschwaben mit taxonomischen Notizen zu „Promalacoclemmys Reinach, 1900“ und Testudo antiqua Bronn, 1831 (Testudines: Cryptodira). Mainzer naturwiss. Archiv 50:121-146
• 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