Titanochelon schafferi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Testudinoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Division: Pan-Testudines Division: Testudinata Ordo: Testudines Subordo: Cryptodira Superfamilia: Testudinoidea

Titanochelon schafferi (T. Szalai 1931)
- Holotype: NHMW 2009z0103/0001
- Type locality: Fossil collection from Samos Island in the NHMW (Miocene of Greece)

Cheirogaster schafferi T. Szalai 2014
- Titanochelon perpiniana E. Vlachos et al. 2020

T. Szalai. 1931. Testudo schafferi nov. sp. eine Riesenschildkröte aus dem Pliozän von Samos. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 45:153-163

E. Vlachos, A. Perez-Garcia, S. Roussiakis, G.L. Georgalis, and B.P. Kear. 2020. Late Miocene tortoises from Samos, Greece: Implications for European Neogene testudinid systematics and distributions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e1722950)1-18.Reference page.

Turtle Extinctions Working Group (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., and van Dijk, P.P.). 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. Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66. Download

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