REPTILIA (Reptiles) TESTUDINES (Turtles) TESTUDINIDAE (Tortoises)
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†Testudo equicomes
Conservation Status:
Extinct
Distribution:
(, Museum Voucher) (, Observation) (, Literature Record) (, iNat Record), ( Fossil)
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Occurrence Summary:
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Records
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Museum Vouchers
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Other Observations
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County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Meade (1);
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2018
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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.
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2018
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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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