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: SMNS 12645, a nearly complete skull without lower jaws, lacking parts of the left side and the central basicranial region (Dacque´, 1912: pl. 2, figs. 68;
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: fig. 128;
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: pl. 1; Gaffney et al., 2002: figs. 2 and 3).
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: Dacqué (1912) gave the locality at first in reference to a shell: Unteroligocäne Fluviomarinestuffe nördlich der Birket Qerun; nordlich non Tamieh; ostlich vom Schweinforthplateau. Schädel: aus derselben stufe bei Dimêh. Alles Fayum (ibid., p. 310).
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, repeated in
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) has the locality as Diieh which seems to be a misspelling of Dimêh. The reference to the skull from the same sediment near Dimêh presumably means the Qasr el-Sagha or Birket Qarun Formations of late Eocene age.
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southeast of A),
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quarry B area, early Oligocene (
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).
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Possibly
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R3346, a lower jaw figured by
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; previously identified by
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, as
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) that fits the triturating surface of the maxilla in
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, as argued by Williams.
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:
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. Gaffney et al. (2002) provides a redescription based on
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and a reconstruction of the skull.
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: There is no support for the earlier suggestions that the shell for
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is the shell-based species,
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(
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; Lapparent
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). We argue below that
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is the shell of a
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<emphasis id="7380B12FFFA75E52FD42A2889D73D6FB" box="[667,783,945,968]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="34">Neochelys</emphasis>
species.
</taxonomicName>
We have concluded that based on skull morphology,
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<emphasis id="7380B12FFFA75E52FC3AA2E99A1AD6D6" box="[995,1126,976,997]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="34">Dacquemys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the sister taxon to UCMP 42008, which has a very unusual shell similar to that of
<emphasis id="7380B12FFFA75E52FB81A5309D6BD10E" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="34">
<taxonomicName id="86F416BEFFA75E52FB81A5309D6FD10E" authorityName="Gaffney &amp; Meylan &amp; Wood &amp; Simons &amp; De Almeida Campos" authorityYear="2011" class="Testudines" family="Podocnemididae" genus="Albertwoodemys" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pleurodira" pageId="34" pageNumber="34" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Albertwoodemys</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
The possibility exists that
<taxonomicName id="86F416BEFFA75E52FB8FA5119CA8D169" authorityName="Williams" authorityYear="1954" class="Reptilia" family="Podocnemididae" genus="Dacquemys" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Testudines" pageId="34" pageNumber="34" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="7380B12FFFA75E52FB8FA5119CA8D169" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="34">Dacquemys</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the skull for
<emphasis id="7380B12FFFA75E52FC51A57D9A30D168" box="[904,1100,1092,1115]" italics="true" pageId="34" pageNumber="34">
<taxonomicName id="86F416BEFFA75E52FC51A57D9A3BD168" authorityName="Gaffney &amp; Meylan &amp; Wood &amp; Simons &amp; De Almeida Campos" authorityYear="2011" box="[904,1095,1092,1115]" class="Testudines" family="Podocnemididae" genus="Albertwoodemys" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Pleurodira" pageId="34" pageNumber="34" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Albertwoodemys</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
as both are known from the early Oligocene of the Fayum.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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