Taraschelon gigas Bravard 1844

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Alternative combination: Testudo gigas

Full reference: A. Bravard. 1844. Considerations sur la distribution des mammiferes terrestres fossiles dans le departement du Puy-de-Dome. Annales scientifiques, litteraires et industrielles d’Auvergne 16:402-439

Belongs to Taraschelon according to A. Pérez-García 2016

See also Bravard 1844, Broin 1977 and Vlachos and Rabi 2018

Sister taxa: Cheirogaster gigas, Cheirogaster maurini

Type specimen: MNHN.F LIM 777, a partial skeleton (carapace and plastron). Its type locality is Bournoncle-Saint-Pierre, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in France.

Distribution: found only at Bournoncle-Saint-Pierre

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