Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Full reference: P. Meylan and W. Auffenberg. 1986. New land tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from the Miocene of Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 86:279-307

Parent taxon: Testudininae according to E. Vlachos and M. Rabi 2018

See also Carroll 1988, de la Fuente et al. 2014 and Meylan and Auffenberg 1986

Sister taxa: Agrionemys, Centrochelys, Cheirogaster, Chersina, Ergilemys, Geochelona, Geochelone, Geoemydinei, Gigantochersina, Indotestudo, Kinixys, Mesochersus, Namibchersus, Paleotestudo, Stigmochelys, Stylemys, Testudinini

Subtaxa: Impregnochelys pachytectis

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Rusinga Island (Miocene of Kenya)

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