Cheirogaster gigas Bravard 1844 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

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 Cheirogaster according to E. Vlachos and M. Rabi 2018

Sister taxa: Cheirogaster maurini, Taraschelon gigas

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.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cheirogaster gigas in the database

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