Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Parent taxon: Testudininae according to E. Vlachos and M. Rabi 2018
See also Antunes and de Broin 1977, Auffenberg 1971, Auffenberg 1981, Böhme 2008, Burney et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Crumly 1982, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Estes and Tihen 1964, Frank and Ramus 1996, Holman 1985, Holman and Sullivan 1981, Holman and Tokaryk 1987, Meylan and Auffenberg 1986, Parris and Daeschler 1995, Sanchez-Villagra and Scheyer 2010, Swingland and Klemens 1989, van Dijk et al. 2014 and Zug 2001
Sister taxa: Agrionemys, Centrochelys, Cheirogaster, Ergilemys, Geochelona, Geoemydinei, Gigantochersina, Impregnochelys, Indotestudo, Kinixys, Mesochersus, Namibchersus, Paleotestudo, Stigmochelys, Stylemys, Testudinini
Subtaxa: Geochelone (Asterochelys) Geochelone (Chelonoidis) Geochelone (Geochelone) Geochelone carbonaria Geochelone chilensis Geochelone costaricensis Geochelone demissa 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
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Anguilla (1 collection), the Bahamas (2), Brazil (1), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (5), El Salvador (2), Haiti (1), Indonesia (1), Kenya (17), Madagascar (2), the Netherlands Antilles (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Sudan (2), Tanzania (3), Thailand (1), United States (16: California, Florida, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas)
• Blancan of United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1), Kenya (4)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), France (1), Indonesia (5), Kenya (4), Mexico (1), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), Tanzania (6), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Hemphillian of United States (7: California, Kansas, Nebraska)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (2), South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Canada (4: Saskatchewan), Colombia (1), France (3), Germany (9), Iraq (1), Kenya (1), Libya (1), Nepal (2), Saudi Arabia (3), Spain (1), Tunisia (1), the United Arab Emirates (5), United States (14: Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas)
• Harrisonian of United States (1: Texas)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), United States (1: California)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Germany (4), Mongolia (1), Portugal (2)
• Tertiary of China (1)
Total: 159 collections including 160 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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