Geochelone demissa Gilmore 1931 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Alternative combination: Testudo demissa

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1931. Fossil turtles of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59:213-257

Belongs to Geochelone according to C. R. Crumly 1983

See also Gilmore 1931 and Mlynarski 1969

Sister taxa: Geochelone (Asterochelys), Geochelone (Chelonoidis), Geochelone (Geochelone), Geochelone carbonaria, Geochelone chilensis, Geochelone costaricensis, Geochelone elegans, Geochelone elephantopus, Geochelone gigantea, Geochelone kalganensis, Geochelone laetoliensis, Geochelone nigra, Geochelone oskarkuhni, Geochelone pardalis, Geochelone platynota, Geochelone radiata, Geochelone stromeri, Geochelone sulcata, Geochelone travancorica, Geochelone yniphora

Type specimen: AMNH 6670, a dermal scale. Its type locality is Ergilin Dzo [AMNH], which is in an Eocene terrestrial sandstone in the Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Ergilin Dzo [AMNH]

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