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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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Autores principales: Garcia, Géraldine, Pinton, Aurélie, Valentin, Xavier, Kostopoulos, Dimitris S., Merceron, Gildas, de Bonis, Louis, Koufos, George D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32267839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224783

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