REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) TESTUDINIDAE (Tortoises)
Meade Tortoise
†Geochelone equicomes
Conservation Status:
Extinct
Distribution:
(, Museum Voucher) (, Observation) (, Literature Record) (, iNat Record), ( Fossil)
Open icons are questionable records; Click on a marker to view details.
Full range depicted by light shaded red area.
Export Google Earth (.kml)
-
Occurrence Summary:
-
0
Records
-
0
Museum Vouchers
-
0
Other Observations
Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Fossil History:
Fossils from the Cragin Quarry Local Fauna of Meade County (Pleistocene: Sangamonian) (Hay 1917; Etheridge 1958; Etheridge 1960, Tihen 1960; Tihen 1962; Brattstrom 1967; Preston 1979; Holman 1995) are assignable to this taxon.
|
1928
|
Ortenburger, Arthur I. The whip snakes and racers: Genera Masticophis and Coluber. Memiors of the University of Michigan Museum (1):1-247
|
|
2018
|
Vlachos, Evangelos. A review of the fossil record of North American turtles of the clade Pan-Testudinoidea Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 59(1):3-94
Has a BUNCH of changes to turtle taxonomy that need to be incorporated.
|
Account Last Updated:
11/18/2023 1:46:32 PM - page took 0.4380017 seconds to load.