Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Full reference: G. G. Zacarias, M. S. de la Fuente, M. S. Fernandez and A. E. Zurita. 2013. Nueva especie de tortuga terrestre gigante del género Chelonoidis Fitzinger, 1835 (Cryptodira: Testudinidae), del miembro inferior de la FormacióN Toropí/ Yupoí (Pleistoceno Tardío/ Lujanense), Bella Vista, Corrientes, Argentina. Ameghiniana 50(3):298-318

Belongs to Chelonoidis according to M. S. de la Fuente et al. 2018

See also de la Fuente et al. 2014, Rhodin et al. 2015 and Zacarias et al. 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CTES-PZ 7391, a partial skeleton (partial carapace and almost complete plastron, including some appendicular elements). Its type locality is Arroyo Toropí (Toropí Formation), which is in a Lujanian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Toropí Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Arroyo Toropí (Toropí Formation)

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