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Wanting out of Chicago, his father moved the family to Glenview, Illinois, where Opelka attended Catholic schools. Despite moving to the "north shore", he has remained faithful to Chicago-area sports team, e.g., the White Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks, and Bears. [3] As the "runt of the litter", Opelka used humor as a defense in his family.
The testudo was a common formation in the Middle Ages, being used by Muhammad's forces during the Siege of Ta'if in 630, [4] also by the Carolingian Frankish soldiers of Louis the Pious to advance on the walls of Barcelona during the siege of 800–801, by Vikings during the siege of Paris in 885–886, by East Frankish soldiers under king ...
A skeletal replica of a species of Hesperotestudo. Species list is based on Vlachos, 2018 [2] † Hesperotestudo Williams 1950 [7] †Hesperotestudo bermudae Meylan and Sterrer 2000 [8] Bermuda, Middle Pleistocene c. 310,000 years before present (YBP) - shell length c. 50 centimetres (1.6 ft) [3] [9]
Testudo formation, a Roman military tactic which involved a formation of soldiers using their shields to form a tortoise-shell-like protective cover against enemy weapons; Testudo, the Latin variant of the Greek chelys harp, involving a sound-box made from a tortoise shell; Testudo, an obsolete constellation now in the constellation of Pisces
The species was described by Louis Michel François Doyère in 1840; he placed it in the genus Emydium. [1]G. Ramazzotti and W. Maucci classified E. filamentos mongoliensis Iharos, 1973 [4] as a synonym of E. testudo in 1983; this was followed by other tardigradologists. [5]
Testudo hellenica is an extinct genus of tortoise of the genus Testudo from the Miocene Nea Messimvria Formation (Zone MN 10) of Greece. [1] T. hellenica is the earliest known crown-Testudo from Greece (according to Garcia et al., 2020), since the next oldest Testudo species, T. marmorum, from Greece come from the Turolian (7.3-7.2 ma) Pikermi beds.
Many references list the name as Aristobia testudo, [2] but this name, though published earlier, is unavailable under the ICZN, [3] [4] primarily in that Johann Eusebius Voet's 1778 work giving the name testudo fails to fulfill the requirement in ICZN Article 11.4 that a work must be consistently binomial; none of Voet's 1778 names, including ...
There are approximately 10 known species in the genus, most of which were originally assigned to Testudo (a genus which formally encompassed almost all fossil tortoises) or Cheirogaster, the type species of which, Cheirogaster maurini is known from the Eocene of France and is quite different to the species assigned to Titanochelon.