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Hesperotestudo bermudae
Taxonomy
Hesperotestudo bermudae was named by Meylan and Sterrer (2000). Its type specimen is BAMZ 1991–086, a partial skeleton (nearly complete shell missing the posterior left quarter, with an associated skull including a braincase, ear regions, most of the upper and lower jaws, and a s), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Smith's Parrish, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Bermuda.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Hesperotestudo bermudae Meylan and Sterrer p. 54 figs. 1-7 |
| 2018 | Hesperotestudo bermudae Vlachos |
| 2018 | Hesperotestudo bermudae Vlachos and Rabi p. 663 |
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†Hesperotestudo bermudae Meylan and Sterrer 2000
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| P. A. Meylan and W. Sterrer 2000 | A small member of the genus Hesperotestudo with a thin, wide shell in which the ilium contacts costals 7 and 8; in the skull, the prootic is significantly narrowed in dorsal view and the cavum tympani is divided into a more dorsal and a more ventral part by a sharp ridge that crosses the anterior surface of the cavum from just anterior to the incisura columellae auris to the suture with the quadratojugal; and the acromion process forms a very high angle to the body of the scapula (127°). | |
| E. Vlachos 2018 | Hesperotestudo bermudae can be diagnosed as a member of Hesperotestudo based on the characters listed above. Hesperotestudo bermudae differs from other Hesperotestudo based on the presence of a thin, wide shell in which the ilium contacts costals VII and VIII, a significantly narrowed prootic in dorsal view, a cavum tympani that is divided into a more dorsal and a more ventral part by a sharp ridge that crosses the anterior surface of the cavum from just anterior to the incisura columellae auris to the suture with the quadratojugal, and an acromion process that forms a very high angle to the body of the scapula. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.12900 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Bermuda | Hesperotestudo bermudae (type locality: 190749) |