Thick-shielded Tortoise (Hesperotestudo crassiscutata)
The Thick-shielded Tortoise is known from fossil remains that can bedated to an Late Pleistocene to the earliest Holocene age, about 9500 BC, so falls just into the timespan that is covered by this blog.
The carapace of this rather large form reached a length of over 1 m.
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edited: 06.09.2020
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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