†Protestudo bessarabica Riabinin 1918 (turtle)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Alternative combinations: Agrionemys bessarabica, Testudo bessarabica
Full reference: A. N. Riabinin. 1918. [On the turtles from the Meotian deposits of Bessarabia]. Trudy Geol. Min. Muz. Petra Velikago Imper. Akad. Nauk 1-16
Belongs to Protestudo according to E. V. Syromyatnikova et al. 2019
See also Lujan et al. 2016 and Riabinin 1918
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 1451 (lectotype), a shell
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Moldova (3 collections), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.