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Neochelys franzeni
Taxonomy
Neochelys franzeni was named by Schleich (1993). Its type specimen is ME 1091, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit, grid square H7, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1993 | Neochelys franzeni Schleich |
| 2015 | Neochelys franzeni Cadena |
| 2015 | Neochelys franzeni Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin |
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†Neochelys franzeni Schleich 1993
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| H. M. Schleich 1993 | A small species reaching about 15 cm straight carapax length. Gulars reaching pectorals, humero-pectoral seam crossing marginally the epi-/hyoplastral suture. Abdominal/femoral furrow rather straight or slightly convex at height of inguinal notch. Plastral front lobe rounded anteriorly, slightly flat. Lateral 1 wider than long, central 1 distinctly narrower than following centrals 2-4; centrals 2,3 almost as wide as long. Weak posteriodorsomedian keel. |
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005 | |||||