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Hesperotestudo wilsoni (Milstead)

Wilson’s Tortoise (Hesperotestudo wilsoni)

Wilson’s Tortoise is a Pleistocene species that apparently survived into the earliest Holocene, about 9050 BC, so falls just within the timespan this blog is covereing.

The carapace of this species reached a length of about 23 cm.

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edited: 06.09.2020