Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Alternative combinations: Geochelone monensis, Testudo monensis
Full reference: E. E. Williams. 1952. A new fossil tortoise from Mona Island, West-Indies, and a tentative arrangement of the tortoises of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99(9):545-560
Belongs to Chelonoidis according to E. Vlachos 2018
See also Auffenberg 1967, Franz and Franz 2009, Rhodin et al. 2015 and Williams 1952
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 1969, a limb element (first dorsal vertebra). Its type locality is Lirio Cave, which is in a Holocene cave horizon in Puerto Rico.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Puerto Rico (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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