Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
MNHNPIK 3683a (lectotype by designation of Vlachos et al. 2019), a partial shell This species is named in Gaudry, A. 1862a. Résultats des fouilles exécutées en Grèce sous les auspices de l’Académie. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris 52:297–300, which has priority
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Full reference: A. Gaudry. 1862. Note sur les débris d'oiseaux et de reptiles trouvés a Pikermi (Grece), suivie de quelques remarques de paléontologie générale. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 19:629-640
Belongs to Testudo according to E. Vlachos 2021
See also Gaudry 1862, Lujan et al. 2016, Vlachos et al. 2019 and Vlachos and Rabi 2018
Sister taxa: Testudo (Chersine), Testudo (Stylemys), Testudo amberiacensis, Testudo amiatae, Testudo antakyensis, Testudo antiqua, Testudo atlas, Testudo bosporica, Testudo brevitesta, Testudo brontops, Testudo carinata, Testudo cautleyi, Testudo cernovi, Testudo changshanensis, Testudo chienfutungensis, Testudo costarricensis, Testudo craverii, Testudo denizoti, Testudo despotti, Testudo emys, Testudo escheri, Testudo eurysternum, Testudo floweri, Testudo geometrica, Testudo globosa, Testudo graeca, Testudo hellenica, Testudo hermanni, Testudo hexagonata, Testudo hipparionum, Testudo honanensis, Testudo houzei, Testudo hypercostata, Testudo hypselonota, Testudo ibera, Testudo indica, Testudo kalksburgensis, Testudo kenitrensis, Testudo kleinmanni, Testudo lamanonii, Testudo larteti, Testudo lohanica, Testudo lunanensis, Testudo lutaria, Testudo margae, Testudo marginata, Testudo nanus, Testudo neraudii, Testudo oughlamensis, Testudo pecorinii, Testudo phosphoritarum, Testudo promarginata, Testudo pusilla, Testudo scabra, Testudo shansiensis, Testudo sharanensis, Testudo shensiensis, Testudo shilouensis, Testudo sloanei, Testudo sphaerica, Testudo steinheimensis, Testudo tarakliensis, Testudo terrestris, Testudo tunhuanensis, Testudo ulanensis, Testudo weissingeri, Testudo yunnanensis
Type specimen: MNHN PIK 3683a, a partial shell. Its type locality is Pikermi (old collection), which is in a Miocene fluvial horizon in Greece.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Bulgaria (4 collections), Greece (5), Turkey (2)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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