This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Rafinesque, 1832
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scientific
Gopherus
Alternative Name
scientific
Bysmachelys
Johnston, 1937
Ref.: C. S. Johnston. 1937. Osteology of Bysmachelys canyonensis a new turtle from the Pliocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 45(4):439-447
scientific
Scaptochelys
Bramble, 1982
Ref.: D. M. Bramble. 1982. Scaptochelys: generic revision and evolution of gopher tortoises. Copeia 1982(4):852-867
scientific
Xerobates
Agassiz, 1857
Ref.: L. Agassiz. 1857. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classi cation. Part II. North American Testudinata.
S. R. May, 2019 - The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA - Palaeontologia Electronica (), 1-129 (journal article, English)
E. Vlachos, 2018 - A Review of the Fossil Record of North American Turtles of the Clade Pan-Testudinoidea - Bulletin of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (59), 3-94 (journal article, English)
P. P. van Dijk, 2014 - Turtles of the World, 7th edition: annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution with maps, and conservation status - Chelonian Research Monographs (5), 329-479 (journal article, English)
V.-H. Reynoso, 2004 - A new giant turtle of the genus Gopherus (Chelonia: Testudinidae) from the Pleistocene of Tamaulipas, México, and a review of the phylogeny and biogeography of gopher tortoises - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (24), 822-837 (journal article, English)
J. H. Hutchison, 1996 - Testudines - The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America (), 337-353 (book/book chapter, English)
R. L. Carroll, 1988 - - Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (), 1-698 (compendium, English)
D. M. Bramble, 1982 - Scaptochelys: generic revision and evolution of gopher tortoises - Copeia (1982), 852-867 (journal article, English)
O. Mooser, 1980 - Pleistocene fossil turtles from Aguascalientes, State of Aguascalientes - Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas (4), 63-66 (journal article, English)
O. Mooser, 1972 - A new species of Pleistocene fossil tortoise, genus Gopherus, from Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México - Southwestern Naturalist (17), 61-65 (journal article, English)
W. S. Strain, 1966 - Blancan mammalian fauna and Pleistocene formations, Hudspeth County, Texas - Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin (10), 1-55 (journal article, English)
J. R. Des Lauriers, 1965 - A new Miocene tortoise from southern California - Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences (64), 1-10 (journal article, English)
B. H. Brattstrom, 1961 - Some new fossil tortoises from western North America with remarks on the zoogeography and paleoecology of tortoises - Journal of Paleontology (35), 543-560 (journal article, English)
C. S. Johnston, 1937 - Osteology of Bysmachelys canyonensis a new turtle from the Pliocene of Texas - Journal of Paleontology (45), 439-447 (journal article, English)
J. C. Merriam, 1919 - Tertiary mammalian faunas of the Mohave desert - University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology (11), 437-585 (journal article, English)
F. B. Loomis, 1909 - Turtles from the upper Harrison beds - American Journal of Science (63), 17-26 (journal article, English)
O. P. Hay, 1908 - The fossil turtles of North America - Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication (75), 1-568 (serial monograph, English)
O. P. Hay, 1906 - Descriptions of new species of turtles of the genus Testudo, collected from the Miocene by the Carnegie Museum; together with a description of the skull of Stylemys nebrascensis - Annals of Carnegie Museum (4), 15-20 (journal article, English)
E. D. Cope, 1893 - A preliminary report on the vertebrate paleontology of the Llano Estacado - Fourth Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas (1892), 11-136 (book chapter, English)
E. D. Cope, 1873 - Second notice of extinct Vertebrata from the Tertiary of the Plains - Paleontological Bulletin (15), 1-6 (journal article, English)
L. Agassiz, 1857 - Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America. First Monograph. Vol. I. Part I. Essay on Classi cation. Part II. North American Testudinata - (), 1-452 (book, English)