Gallica lapparentiana Pérez-García 2020 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Macrobaenidae

Full reference: A. Pérez-García. 2020. A European Cenozoic ‘Macrobaenid’: New Data about the Paleocene Arrival of Several Turtle Lineages to Europe. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1795874:1-10

Belongs to Gallica according to A. Pérez-García 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN.F BR13516, a partial shell (complete left hyoplastron). Its type locality is Mont Berru, which is in a Thanetian fluvial conglomerate in the Sables de Bracheux Formation of France.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Mont Berru

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