Pontlevoy turtle (Miocene of France)

Where: Centre-Val de Loire, France (47.4° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 0.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: MN 5a mammal zone, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Hervet. 2004. Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178520: authorized by David Nicholson, entered by David Nicholson on 06.05.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp., Ergilemys sp.
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
Ergilemys sp. Ckhikvadze 1972 turtle
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys pygolopha, Ptychogaster sp.
Mauremys pygolopha Peters 1868 pond turtle
Ptychogaster sp. Pomel 1847 turtle
"Ptychogaster (Temnoclemys) sp."
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp.
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Chelydridae
Chelydropsis sp.
Chelydropsis sp. Peters 1868 turtle