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This paper describes a new species of a fossil tortoise from the site of Milia, a world famous site based on the findings of the longest tusks in the world. This new tortoise is related with the extant marginated tortoise from Greece.
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This paper is important because it describes the only known fossil tortoise with a similar posterior border to the extant and fossil Testudo marginata. Also it allows the analysis of related taxa and the revision of the clade Chersus. Finally it brings to attention one of the most diverse chelonian faunas from Greece.
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This page is a summary of: The diverse fossil chelonians from Milia (late Pliocene, Grevena, Greece) with a new species ofTestudoLinnaeus, 1758 (Testudines: Testudinidae), Papers in Palaeontology, October 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1031.
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