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Gopherus mohavensis
Taxonomy
Testudo mohavense was named by Merriam (1919). Its type specimen is UCMP 21575, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was corrected as Testudo mohavensis by Hay (1930); it was recombined as Gopherus mohavense by Brattstrom (1961); it was recombined as Scaptochelys mohavense by Bramble (1982); it was recombined as Gopherus mohavetus by Reynoso and Montellano-Ballesteros (2004); it was recombined as Gopherus mohavensis by Vlachos (2018).
It was corrected as Testudo mohavensis by Hay (1930); it was recombined as Gopherus mohavense by Brattstrom (1961); it was recombined as Scaptochelys mohavense by Bramble (1982); it was recombined as Gopherus mohavetus by Reynoso and Montellano-Ballesteros (2004); it was recombined as Gopherus mohavensis by Vlachos (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Testudo mohavense Merriam |
| 1930 | Testudo mohavensis Hay p. 104 |
| 1961 | Gopherus mohavense Brattstrom p. 547 |
| 1982 | Scaptochelys mohavense Bramble p. 854 |
| 2004 | Gopherus mohavetus Reynoso and Montellano-Ballesteros p. 824 |
| 2018 | Gopherus mohavensis Vlachos |
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†Gopherus mohavensis Merriam 1919
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Vlachos 2018 | Gopherus mohavensis can be diagnosed as a member of Gopherus based on the characters mentioned above. Gopherus mohavensis differs from all other Gopherus in the cervical that is much wider than long and the much wider neural IV. Gopherus mohavensis further differs from Gopherus hexagonatus and Gopherus brevisternus in the well-differentiated neural series. |
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: base of the Barstovian to the top of the Clarendonian or 16.30000 to 9.40000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Barstovian | USA (California) | Gopherus mohavense (99597) | |
| Clarendonian | USA (California) | Gopherus mohavense (19553) |