Affiliation:
1. Grupo de Biología Evolutiva Dpto. de Física Matemática y de Fluidos, Facultad de Ciencias, UNED Madrid Spain
2. Museu Maynense, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa Lisbon Portugal
Abstract
AbstractCurrently, there is no information on the fossil record of Pan‐Cheloniidae from the Neogene of the Iberian Peninsula. A well‐preserved partial skeleton attributable to this lineage of turtles, from the Middle Miocene of Portugal, is presented here. It preserves much of the anterior half of its carapace, in which the plates remain articulated, as well as several articulated dorsal vertebrae, and an isolated cervical and a caudal vertebrae. The analysis of this Serravallian find shows that it cannot be attributed to a hitherto described taxon. Thus, a new member of Pan‐Cheloniidae is defined, Lusochelys emilianoi gen. et sp. nov., improving the relatively limited knowledge about this lineage for the Middle Miocene global record. It represents the first generic and specific systematic attribution for a member of Pan‐Chelonioidea in the Neogene record of the Iberian Peninsula.
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