Reptilia - Testudines - Pantestudinidae
Alternative spellings: Geochelone (Hadrianus), Testudo (Hadrianus)
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1872. Second account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-3
Parent taxon: Pantestudinidae according to E. Vlachos 2018
See also Auffenberg 1971, Bramble 1982, Chkhikvadze 1970, Cope 1871, Cope 1884, Danilov and Averianov 1997, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Gilmore 1915, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Holroyd et al. 2001, Hutchison 1992, Joyce et al. 2004, Lichtig and Lucas 2015, Lichtig and Lucas 2015, Thurmond and Jones 1981 and Williams 1953
Sister taxa: Cymatholcus, Oligopherus
Subtaxa: Hadrianus corsoni Hadrianus majusculus Hadrianus obailiensis Hadrianus octonaria Hadrianus vialovi Testudo uintensis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene to Oligocene of Mexico (1 collection)
• Eocene of Kyrgyzstan (2), United States (27: Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 30 collections including 35 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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