Project 4813: P. Valenti, E. Vlachos, C. Kehlmaier, U. Fritz, G. L. Georgalis, À. Hernández Luján, R. Miccichè, L. Sineo, M. Delfino. 2022. The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196 (4):1704-1717.
Abstract
Archaeological investigations carried out in the cave Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro, Bagheria, Sicily, revealed the presence of a few skeletal elements of a large-sized tortoise in a funerary area dating to the Copper/Bronze Age. The tortoise has been AMS-dated revealing an age of 12.5 ± 0.5 kyr BP and therefore it pre-dates the funerary activities. The morphology of the retrieved skeletal elements differs from that of the only native tortoise currently living in Sicily, Testudo hermanni. The tortoise’s size significantly exceeds the size range of extant Te. hermanni and all Testudo spp., as well as that of their known fossils, and suggests a shell length of 50–60 cm. Repeated efforts to obtain DNA sequences from the tortoise of Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro failed, but the morphology of the femur is distinct enough to allow us to erect a new taxon, Solitudo sicula gen. et sp. nov., based on a parsimony analysis. It belongs to a hitherto unrecognized clade that includes other large-sized tortoises from Mediterranean islands, like Malta and Menorca. A review of the pertinent taxa indicates that the remains here described represent the geologically youngest large-sized tortoise of the Mediterranean area.Read the article »
Article DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac044
Project DOI: 10.7934/P4813, http://dx.doi.org/10.7934/P4813
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Download Project SDD File | Total scored cells: 2660 Total media associated with cells: 0 Total labels associated with cell media: 0 |
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Total characters: 177 Total characters with associated media: 0 Total characters with media with labels: 0 Total character states: 427 Total character states with associated media: 0 Total character states with media with labels:0 Total unordered/ordered characters:145/32 |
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03 August 2023 - Publication Date:
03 August 2023 - Project views: 3125
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Authors' Institutions
- State Museum of Zoology (German: Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen), Dresden
- Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio
- Università degli Studi di Torino (University of Turin)
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Università degli Studi di Palermo (University of Palermo)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Members
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MorphoBank Curator Project Administrator | 22 | 11 | 11 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 2660 (2607, 0, 53) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Taxonomic Overview for Matrix 'M29418' (22 Taxa)
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[1] Gopherus polyphemus Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 5 | 175 | 169 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[2] Chelonoidis carbonaria Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 0 | 198 | 162 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[3] Chelonoidis chilensis Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 3 | 194 | 171 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[4] Chelonoidis denticulata Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 0 | 205 | 173 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[5] Testudo graeca Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 2 | 202 | 169 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[6] Chersine hermanni Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 5 | 174 | 167 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[7] Agrionemys horsfieldii Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 58 | 123 | 117 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[8] Testudo kleinmanni Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 26 | 156 | 144 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[9] Testudo marginata Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 80 | 110 | 95 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[10] Chelonoidis nigra Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 6 | 178 | 168 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[11] Stigmochelys pardalis Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 13 | 168 | 161 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[12] Centrochelys sulcata Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 1 | 182 | 173 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[13] † Titanochelon bacharidisi Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 72 | 107 | 103 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[14] † Titanochelon bolivari Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 34 | 145 | 140 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[15] † Testudo gymnesica Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 170 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[16] † Titanochelon perpiniana Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 92 | 82 | 81 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[17] † Testudo robusta Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 172 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[18] † Titanochelon schafferi Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 100 | 75 | 75 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[19] † Titanochelon vitodurana Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 82 | 94 | 93 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[20] Sicily Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 168 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[21] Monte pellegrino Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 168 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
[22] † Testudo burchardi Last Modified in 08/03/23 | 168 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Specimen list | 916 | |
Taxon list | 527 | |
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