taxonID	type	description	language	source
7746DF36FFDBFF88B4F32FA2741FFC4E.taxon	type_taxon	Type species. Emys capellinii Zigno, 1889	en	Pérez-García, Adán, Guerrero, Andrea, Jesús, Santiago Martín de, Ortega, Francisco (2024): Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 28) 27 (2): 1-50, DOI: 10.26879/1388, URL: https://doi.org/10.26879/1388
7746DF36FFDBFF8CB4172FDF7545FECB.taxon	description	Figures 2 - 13 Synonymy ‘ Neochelys’ zamorensis Arribas Moreno et al. (1984), Jiménez Fuentes (1986) [nomen nudum] Neochelys zamorensis nomen nudum Jiménez Fuentes et al. (1985) [nomen nudum]	en	Pérez-García, Adán, Guerrero, Andrea, Jesús, Santiago Martín de, Ortega, Francisco (2024): Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 28) 27 (2): 1-50, DOI: 10.26879/1388, URL: https://doi.org/10.26879/1388
7746DF36FFDBFF8CB4172FDF7545FECB.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. The holotype, STUS 12121, corresponding to an almost complete shell (Figure 2 AB). Referred material. A selection of 183 specimens, both from the type locality (Figure 2 C-J) and from other outcrops of the same geological formation (i. e., the Entrala Formation) and province (Zamora Province) (Figures 3 - 13), corresponding to relatively complete to partial shells, and isolated plates, including: both articulated carapacial and plastral elements (Figures 2 A-D, 2 F-I, 3 A-H), partial carapaces (Figures 2 E, 4 A-G, 5 A-H), complete and partial plastra (Figures 2 J, 6 A-F, 7 A-K, 8 A-Q), nuchal plates (Figure 9 A-Y), epiplastra (Figure 10 A-Z), entoplastra (Figure 11 A-AG), and xiphiplastra (Figures 12 A-BR, 13 A-X). See the collection numbers in the respective figure captions. Type locality and horizon. El Escobar fossil site, Sanzoles Municipality, Zamora Province, Castile and Leon Autonomous Community, northwestern Spain (Figure 1). Duero Basin. Entrala Formation, MP 13 or MP 14, Lutetian, middle Eocene (see Ortega et al., 2022 and references therein). Other localities. Valdegallina 1, Valdegallina 2, and Valdegallina 3 fossil sites, Valdegallina locality, Zamora Municipality; Cubillos 1 and Tardemayas 1 fossil sites, located respectively on the west and south margins of the Infiernos Hill, Monfarracinos Municipality; Teso de la Mora fossil site, Torres del Carrizal Municipality (Figure 1). As the type locality, all of them are located in the Zamora Province, Castile and Leon Autonomous Community, northwestern Spain. Duero Basin. Entrala Formation, MP 13 or MP 14, Lutetian, middle Eocene (see Ortega et al., 2022 and references therein). Emended diagnosis. Neochelys zamorensis can be defined by the following exclusive character combination of shell features within the genus Neochelys: elliptical carapace; maximum carapace length about 30 cm; slightly notched to unnotched anterior carapace margin; as wide as long to generally slightly wider than long nuchal; maximum nuchal width ranging between two and three times that of its anterior margin; seven or rarely eight neurals; longer than wide to slightly wider than long second and third neurals; slightly to almost twice wider than long suprapygal; slightly longer than wide to as wide as long pygal; slightly longer than wide to wider than long first peripheral; lyre-shaped first vertebral to development of substraight lateral margins; concave, convex or substraight first vertebral posterior margin; subequal width of the second and third vertebrals, both being the widest of the vertebral series; one and a half to two times as wide as long first marginal; anterior plastral lobe ranging from slightly wider than the posterior to slightly narrower than it; trapezoidal anterior plastral lobe; epiplastral posterior margin from as large as to two times larger than the anteromedial; entoplastral length from equivalent to its distance to the pectoral-abdominal sulcus to about two times greater; subrounded to generally substraight lateral margins of the posterior plastral lobe; anal notch width between two and two and a half times less than the maximum xiphiplastral width; anal notch two to four times wider than long; relatively long overlap of the gular on the entoplastron, reaching half the length of this plate, to almost absent overlap; presence or absence of a short to long gularpectorals contact.	en	Pérez-García, Adán, Guerrero, Andrea, Jesús, Santiago Martín de, Ortega, Francisco (2024): Shell anatomy and intraspecific variability of the Spanish Lutetian podocnemidid turtle Neochelys zamorensis. Palaeontologia Electronica (a 28) 27 (2): 1-50, DOI: 10.26879/1388, URL: https://doi.org/10.26879/1388
