Hesperotestudo
| Hesperotestudo | |
|---|---|
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| Hesperotestudo orthopygia | |
| Classificação científica | |
| Domínio: | Eukaryota |
| Reino: | Animalia |
| Filo: | Chordata |
| Classe: | Reptilia |
| Ordem: | Testudines |
| Subordem: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamília: | Testudinoidea |
| Família: | Testudinidae |
| Gênero: | †Hesperotestudo Williams, 1950 |
| Espécie-tipo | |
| Hesperotestudo osborniana (Hay, 1904)
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Hesperotestudo ("tartaruga ocidental") é um extinto gênero de tartaruga que viveu do Mioceno ao Pleistoceno. Seus vestígios são conhecidos na América do Norte, América Central e Bermuda.[1][2] Outros espécimes identificáveis apenas para o gênero foram encontrados em El Salvador (TEWG, 2015).[3]
Taxonomia
[editar | editar código-fonte]A lista de espécies é baseada em Rhodin et al. 2015[3]
- † Hesperotestudo Williams 1950[4]
- Eupachemys Leidy 1877 (nomen oblitum)
- Hesperotestudo Williams 1950:25
- Caudochelys Auffenberg 1963:69
- †Hesperotestudo annae (Hay 1923)[5]
- Testudo annae Hay 1923:114 (Pleistoceno Inferior, Irvingtonian, EUA (Texas))
- Testudo francisi Hay 1923:116 [Pleistoceno Inferior, EUA (Texas)]
- Testudo annae Hay 1923:114 (Pleistoceno Inferior, Irvingtonian, EUA (Texas))
- †Hesperotestudo bermudaeMeylan e Sterrer 2000[1]
- Hesperotestudo bermudae Meylan e Sterrer 2000: 51 [Pleistoceno Médio, Bermuda], c. 310.000 anos antes do presente (YBP) - Tamanho: CL c. 50 cm
- †Hesperotestudo campester (Hay 1908)[6]
- Testudo campester Hay 1908:455 [Plioceno Superior a Pleistoceno Inferior, Blancan, EUA (Texas)] - Tamanho: CL c. > 100 cm
- Testudo rexroadensis Oelrich 1952:301 [Plioceno tardio, Early Blancan, EUA (Kansas)]
- Testudo campester Hay 1908:455 [Plioceno Superior a Pleistoceno Inferior, Blancan, EUA (Texas)] - Tamanho: CL c. > 100 cm
- †Hesperotestudo crassiscutata (Leidy 1889)[7]
- Eupachemys obtusus Leidy 1877:232 (Pleistoceno, EUA (Carolina do Sul)) (nomen oblitum) - Tamanho: CL c. 120–125 cm
- Eupachemys rugosus Leidy 1889:29 (Pleistoceno Superior - Holoceno Inferior, Rancholabrean, EUA (Flórida)) (ex errore para Eupachemys obtusus)
- Testudo crassiscutata Leidy 1889b:31
- †Hesperotestudo equicomes (Hay 1917) [9]
- Testudo equicomes Hay 1917:41
- †Hesperotestudo incisa (Hay 1916)[8]
- Testudo incisa Hay 1916:46
- †Hesperotestudo johnstoni (Auffenberg 1962)[10]
- Geochelone johnstoni Auffenberg 1962:627
- †Hesperotestudo mlynarskii (Auffenberg 1988)[11]
- Geochelone mlynarskii Auffenberg 1988:592
- †Hesperotestudo oelrichi (Holman 1972)[12]
- Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) oelrichi Holman 1972:59
- †Hesperotestudo percrassa (Cope 1899)[13]
- Clemmys percrassus Cope 1899:194
- †Hesperotestudo turgida (Cope 1892)[14]
- Testudo turgida Cope 1892:127
- †Hesperotestudo wilsoni (Milstead 1956)[15]
- Testudo wilsoni Milstead 1956:168 (Late Pleistocene, Late Wisconsinan, US (Texas)], 14C age: c. 11,040 YBP, 9090 BC,(Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, until c. 9050 BC, c. 11,000 YBP) - Size: CL c. 23 cm
- ↑ a b Meylan, P. A.; Sterrer, W. (janeiro de 2000). «Herperotestudo (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Bermuda, with comments on the phylogenetic position of the genus». Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 128 (1): 51–76. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00649.x
- ↑ Olson, S. L.; Meylan, P. A. (dezembro de 2009). «A Second Specimen of the Pleistocene Bermuda Tortoise, Hesperotestudo bermudae Meylan and Sterrer». Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 8 (2): 211–212. doi:10.2744/CCB-0766.1. Consultado em 12 de abril de 2012
- ↑ a b 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.; van Dijk, P.P.; et al. (Turtle Extinctions Working Group) (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.» (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66. doi:10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015
- ↑ Williams , E.E. 1950. Testudo cubensis and the evolution of Western Hemisphere tortoises. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95:1–36.
- ↑ Hay, O.P. 1923. Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates. Pan-American Geologist 39:114–120.
- ↑ Hay, O.P. 1908. The Fossil Turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication 75:1–568.
- ↑ Leidy, J. 1889. Description of vertebrate remains from Peace Creek, Florida. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia 2:19–31.
- ↑ a b c d Hay, O.P. 1916. Descriptions of some Floridian fossil vertebrates, belonging mostly to the Pleistocene. Annual Report of the Florida State Geological Survey 8:39–76.
- ↑ Hay, O.P. 1917. On a collection of fossil vertebrates made by Dr. F.W. Dragin in the Equus beds of Kansas. Kansas University Science Bulletin 10:39–51.
- ↑ Auffenberg, W. 1962. A new species of Geochelone from the Pleistocene of Texas. Copeia 1962(3):627–636.
- ↑ Auffenberg, W. 1988. A new species of Geochelone (Testudinata: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Florida (U.S.A.). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 31:591–604.
- ↑ Holman, J.A. 1972. Amphibians and reptiles. In: Skinner, M.F. and Hibbard, C.W. (Eds.). Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 148(1):55–148.
- ↑ Vertebrate remains from Port Kennedy bone deposit. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (2)11:193–267.
- ↑ Cope, E.D. 1892. A contribution to the vertebrate palaeontology of Texas. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 30:123–131.
- ↑ Milstead , W.W. 1956. Fossil turtles of Friesenhahn Cave, Texas, with the description of a new species of Testudo. Copeia 1956(3):162–171.