The earliest known crown-Testudo tortoise from the late Miocene (Vallesian, 9 Ma) of Greece.

The earliest known crown-Testudo tortoise from the late Miocene (Vallesian, 9 Ma) of Greece.

We here report on fossil remains of the earliest known crown-Testudo, an extant clade of Mediterranean testudinid tortoises from the late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) from the hominoid locality Ravin de la Pluie (RPl) in Greece. The material studied is a small, nearly complete carapace with a clearly...

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Main Authors: Géraldine Garcia, Aurélie Pinton, Xavier Valentin, Dimitris S Kostopoulos, Gildas Merceron, Louis de Bonis, George D Koufos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224783

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