Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Alternative combinations: Geochelone (Chelonoides) gringorum, Geochelone (Chelonoidis) gringorum, Geochelone gringorum, Testudo gringorum
Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1942. A Miocene tortoise from Patagonia. American Museum Novitates 1209:1-6
Belongs to Chelonoidis according to S. F. Vizcaíno et al. 2022
See also Auffenberg 1971, Auffenberg 1974, Crumly 1982, de Broin and de la Fuente 1993, de la Fuente 1994, de la Fuente et al. 2014, de la Fuente and Vucetich 1998, de la Fuente et al. 2018, Franz and Franz 2009, Oriozabala et al. 2018, Simpson 1942 and Vlachos and Rabi 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Amer. Mus. No. 3366 (Fossil Reptile Catalogue), a partial shell (plastron and much of carapace). Its type locality is Testudo gringorum Type Locality, which is in a Miocene fluvial-deltaic sandstone in Argentina.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Argentina (41 collections)
Total: 41 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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