A reassessment of the late jurassic turtle Eurysternum wagleri (Eucryptodira, Eurysternidae)
- Anquetin, Jérémy UMR CNRS 7207 MNHN UPMC, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France - Section d’archéologie et paléontologie, Office de la culture, République et Canton du Jura, Porrentruy, Switzerland.
- Joyce, Walter G. Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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19.09.2014
Published in:
- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. - 2014, vol. 34, no. 6, p. 1317–1328
English
Eurysternum wagleri is one of the first named, yet most poorly understood turtles from the Late Jurassic of Europe. Over the years, many specimens have been referred to and many species synonymized with E. wagleri, but little consensus is apparent, and the taxonomy is therefore highly confusing. Based on the rare, only known illustration of the lost holotype and on the reassessment of select individuals, the species E. wagleri is recharacterized herein. Eurysternum wagleri is diagnosed by a deep pygal notch, a carapace with a pentagonal outline, a contribution of vertebral 5 to the posterior carapace margin, three cervical scales, very wide vertebral scales with a well-developed radiating pattern, well-developed costoperipheral fontanelles in medium-sized individuals, a plastron connected to the carapace by ligaments, gracile, peg-like bony projections of the hyo- and hypoplastra, and large, oval-to-quadrangular lateral plastral fontanelles. A lectotype is designated for Acichelys redenbacheri, and this taxon is interpreted as the junior subjective synonym of Eurysternum wagleri. All other, previously proposed synonymies are rejected, because they lack characters that would allow diagnosing them as E. wagleri.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Géosciences
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Palaeontology
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- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 234236
- DOI 10.1080/02724634.2014.880449
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/304123
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