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Cheirogaster
Discussion
Bergounioux (1935) first describes the type species of the genus, Cheirogaster maurini (pp. 78-82), and then describes the new genus (pp. 82-83)
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Taxonomy
Cheirogaster was named by Bergounioux (1935).
It was assigned to Testudines by Jimenez-Fuentes et al. (1988); to Testudinidae by Karl (2007), Staesche et al. (2007), Perez-Garcia and Murelaga (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and Vlachos et al. (2014); and to Testudininae by Vlachos and Rabi (2018).
It was assigned to Testudines by Jimenez-Fuentes et al. (1988); to Testudinidae by Karl (2007), Staesche et al. (2007), Perez-Garcia and Murelaga (2013), de la Fuente et al. (2014) and Vlachos et al. (2014); and to Testudininae by Vlachos and Rabi (2018).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1935 | Cheirogaster Bergounioux |
| 1988 | Cheirogaster Jimenez-Fuentes et al. |
| 2007 | Cheirogaster Karl p. 56 |
| 2007 | Cheirogaster Staesche et al. |
| 2013 | Cheirogaster Perez-Garcia and Murelaga |
| 2014 | Cheirogaster Vlachos et al. |
| 2014 | Cheirogaster de la Fuente et al. |
| 2016 | Taraschelon Pérez-García pp. e1030024-2 figs. 2-5 |
| 2018 | Cheirogaster Vlachos and Rabi p. 663 |
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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.
G. †Cheirogaster Bergounioux 1935
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†Cheirogaster gigas Bravard 1844
†Cheirogaster maurini Bergounioux 1935
Invalid names: Taraschelon Pérez-García 2016 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ernst and Barbour 1989, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 38.00000 to 3.60000 Ma
Collections (14 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Priabonian | France (Aquitaine Region) | C. maurini (31586) | |
| Priabonian | France (Ile-de-France Region) | C. sp. (31739) | |
| Priabonian | France (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur Region) | C. sp. (31747) | |
| Early/Lower Oligocene | France (Haute-Loire) | Testudo gigas (181060) | |
| MP 22 | Germany | C. sp. (46097) | |
| Oligocene | France (Loire) | C. sp. (181117) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | France (Bouches-du-Rhone) | C. sp. (181656) | |
| Aquitanian | France (Auvergne) | C. sp. (125333) | |
| Miocene | France (Vaucluse) | C. leberonensis (201497) | |
| Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene | Spain (Catalonia) | C. sp. (199537) | |
| MN 9 - MN 10 | Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) | C. sp. (22681) | |
| MN 10 | Spain | C. sp. (195492) | |
| Early/Lower Pliocene | Spain (Balearic Islands) | C. gymnesica (62897) | |
| Pliocene | Spain (Balearic Islands) | C. gymnesica (136227) |