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Cheirogaster ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4821599	https://www.gbif.org/species/4821599
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	268039	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=268039

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Testudinidae : Cheirogaster

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
-	Testudinata
order	Testudines	Batsch 1788
suborder	Cryptodira	Cope 1868
-	Pantestudinoidea	Joyce et al. 2004
superfamily	Testudinoidea	Gray 1825
-	Pantestudinidae	Joyce et al. 2004
family	Testudinidae	Batsch 1788
genus	Cheirogaster	Bergounioux 1935

Scientific Name

Cheirogaster Bergounioux, 1935

Name Published In

Mém. Soc. Géol. France, (N. S.) 11, no. 2-3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cheirogaster	genus	belongs to Testudines	stated without evidence	Jimenez-Fuentes et al., 1988
Cheirogaster	genus	belongs to Testudinidae	stated without evidence	Karl, 2007
Cheirogaster	genus	belongs to Testudinidae	stated with evidence	Perez-Garcia and Murelaga, 2013
Cheirogaster	genus	belongs to Testudinidae	stated without evidence	Vlachos et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

5.33 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Testudinidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore, herbivore (based on Testudinidae)

Reproduction

oviparous (based on Testudinidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Bergounioux. 1935. Contribution a l'étude paléontologique des chéloniens: chéloniens fossiles du bassin d'Aquitaine. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 25:1-214

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cheirogaster gigas ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Cheirogaster maurini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1935	Cheirogaster Bergounioux
1988	Cheirogaster Jimenez-Fuentes et al.
2007	Cheirogaster Karl p. 56
2007	Cheirogaster Staesche et al.
2013	Cheirogaster Perez-Garcia and Murelaga
2014	Cheirogaster Vlachos et al.
2014	Cheirogaster de la Fuente et al.

References

Bergounioux F. M. (1935) Contribution a l'étude paléontologique des chéloniens: chéloniens fossiles du bassin d'Aquitaine, Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France 25, 1-214

Jimenez-Fuentes E., Alonso E. M., et al (1988) Tipos depositados en la Sala de las Turtugas de la Universidad de Salamanca, Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 25, 205-210

Karl H.-V. (2007) The fossil reptiles (Reptilia: Chelonii, Crocodylia) from the marine early Oligocene of the Weisselster Basin (Central Germany: Saxonia), Studia Geologica Salamanticensia 43 1, 25-66

Staesche K., Karl H.V., et al (2007) Fossile Schildkroten aus der Turkei, Fossile Schildkroten aus drei Kontinenten 98, 91-149

Perez-Garcia A., Murelaga X. (2013) Las tortugas del Vallesiense superior del Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, España): nuevos datos sobre el escasamente conocido género Paleotestudo, Ameghiniana 50 3, 335-353 doi:10.5710/AMGH.16.01.2013.585

Vlachos E., Tsoukala E., et al (2014) Cheirogaster bacharidisi, sp. nov., a new species of a giant tortoise from the Pliocene of Thessaloniki (Macedonia, Greece), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 3, 560-575 doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.821409

de la Fuente M. S., Sterli J., et al (2014) Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, Springer Earth System Sciences doi:0.1007/978-3-319-00518-8

NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mém. Soc. Géol. France, (N. S.) 11, no. 2-3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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