Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Alternative combination: Testudo gigas
Full reference: A. Bravard. 1844. Considerations sur la distribution des mammiferes terrestres fossiles dans le departement du Puy-de-Dome. Annales scientifiques, litteraires et industrielles d’Auvergne 16:402-439
Belongs to Taraschelon according to A. Pérez-García 2016
See also Bravard 1844, Broin 1977 and Vlachos and Rabi 2018
Sister taxa: Cheirogaster gigas, Cheirogaster maurini, Cheirogaster steinbacheri
Type specimen: MNHN.F LIM 777, a partial skeleton (carapace and plastron). Its type locality is Bournoncle-Saint-Pierre, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in France.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution: found only at Bournoncle-Saint-Pierre
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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