Project 3466: A. Pérez-García, E. Vlachos, X. Murelaga. 2019. A large testudinid tortoise with African affinities in the post-Messinian (early Pliocene) record of southeastern Spain. Palaeontology. 5:1-19.
Abstract
Herein, we describe Alatochelon myrteum gen. et sp. nov., a large tortoise from the post-Messinian (lower Pliocene) of the area of Puerto de la Cadena (Region of Murcia), Spain. The new taxon cannot be attributed to Titanochelon, which represented the only lineage of large tortoises previously recognized in the Neogene record of Europe. Alatochelon myrteum shows African affinities, especially with the extant African spurred tortoise Centrochelys sulcata. Although close phylogenetic relationships have previously been recognized among some tortoises of both continents, the dispersal of this lineage had always been proposed as having occurred in only one direction: from Europe to Africa. The dispersal of the lineage including the new Spanish form and Centrochelys sulcata from Africa to Europe is proposed here. This proposal is compatible with those previously recognized for some lineages of mammals also found in Puerto de la Cadena, identified as African lineages that probably reached Europe during the Messinian Salinity Crisis event. An African origin is also proposed for the lineage of Titanochelon. Therefore, the two lineages of large derived testudinids (i.e. Geochelona) recognized in the European record experienced diachronic dispersal events from Africa to Europe: that to which Alatochelon belongs probably during theMessinian and the other much earlier, at the beginning of the Miocene or before.Read the article »
Article DOI: 10.1111/pala.12468
Project DOI: 10.7934/P3466, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P3466
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Download Project SDD File | Total scored cells: 2539 Total media associated with cells: 0 Total labels associated with cell media: 0 |
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Total characters: 170 Total characters with associated media: 0 Total characters with media with labels: 0 Total character states: 395 Total character states with associated media: 0 Total character states with media with labels:0 Total unordered/ordered characters:145/25 |
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26 April 2019 - Publication Date:
24 December 2019 - Project views: 12145
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Authors' Institutions
- Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
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Evangelos Vlachos Project Administrator | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 170 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2539 (2490, 0, 49) | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Taxonomic Overview for Matrix 'M26050' (20 Taxa)
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[1] Chrysemys picta Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 1 | 165 | 162 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[2] Chelonoidis carbonaria Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 0 | 188 | 155 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[3] Chelonoidis chilensis Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 4 | 183 | 163 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[4] Chelonoidis denticulata Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 0 | 196 | 166 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[5] Geochelone elegans Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 53 | 117 | 114 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[6] Testudo graeca Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 2 | 179 | 163 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[7] Chersine hermanni Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 6 | 168 | 161 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[8] Stigmochelys pardalis Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 13 | 159 | 152 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[9] Gopherus polyphemus Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 6 | 165 | 161 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[10] Astrochelys radiata Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 9 | 160 | 159 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[11] Centrochelys sulcata Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 2 | 173 | 163 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[12] † Gigantochersina ammon Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 113 | 63 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[13] † Titanochelon bacharidisi Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 70 | 102 | 97 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[14] † Titanochelon bolivari Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 35 | 137 | 132 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[15] † Cheirogaster maurini Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 116 | 51 | 51 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[16] † Namibchersus namaquensis Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 108 | 62 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[17] † Impregnochelys pachytestis Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 130 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[18] † Titanochelon perpiniana Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 87 | 80 | 78 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[19] † Pelorochelon soriana Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 106 | 70 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[20] † Alatochelon myrteum Last Modified in 04/26/19 | 136 | 32 | 31 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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