Palaeochelys gabuniai Chkhikvadze 1973 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae

Full reference: V. M. Chkhikvadze. 1973. Novyye dannyee o tretichnykh cherepakhakh Gruzii [New data on the Tertiary turtles of Georgia, USSR]. Soobshcheniia Akademii nauk Gruzinskoi SSR= Sakartvelos SSR 69(3):745-748

Belongs to Palaeochelys according to V. M. Chkhikvadze 1973

Sister taxa: Palaeochelys astrei, Palaeochelys bussenensis, Palaeochelys elongata, Palaeochelys haslachensis

Type specimen: 7-447, a partial skeleton

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Palaeochelys gabuniai in the database

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