Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Alternative spellings: Geochelone (Indotestudo), Testudo (Indotestudo)
Parent taxon: Testudininae according to E. Vlachos and M. Rabi 2018
See also Auffenberg 1971, Crumly 1982, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Frank and Ramus 1996, Swingland and Klemens 1989 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Agrionemys, Centrochelys, Cheirogaster, Ergilemys, Geochelona, Geochelone, Geoemydinei, Gigantochersina, Impregnochelys, Kinixys, Mesochersus, Namibchersus, Paleotestudo, Stigmochelys, Stylemys, Testudinini
Subtaxa: Indotestudo elongata Indotestudo forstenii Indotestudo kaiseni Indotestudo takasago Indotestudo travancorica
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Thailand (2 collections)
• Pliocene of India (1)
• Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Mongolia (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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