REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) TESTUDINIDAE (Tortoises)

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Testudo equicomes


Conservation Status:

Extinct





Diagnosis:


Distribution:

(,   Museum Voucher) (,   Observation) (,   Literature Record) (,   iNat Record), (  Fossil)
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  • Occurrence Summary:  
  • 1
    Records 
  • 1
    Museum Vouchers 
  • 0
    Other Observations 
Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Meade (1);

Natural History:


Remarks:


Bibliography:
2018 Brown, Lauren E. , Don Moll, and Evan S. Brown. Re-examination of the giant fossil tortoise Hesperotestudo from near the Illinois glacial-sangamon interglacial boundary in North America with commentary on zoogeography. Herpetological Journal 28(2):73-86
Mentions Herperotestudo campester from Kansas.
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.
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