Testudo elata type locality (Miocene to of Brazil)
Where: Acre, Brazil (9.1° S, 70.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 8.8° S, 68.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Precise dating unknown, age calculated based on the temporal range of the tortoise fossils in the area
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN
• material lost
Primary reference: M. P. Gervais. 1877. Tortue gigantesque fossil au Bresil. Journal de Zoologie 6:283-285 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191087: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 08.01.2018
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