Tenerife giant tortoise Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene
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Bone rest of Geochelone burchardi in Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
Family: | Testudinidae |
Genus: | Centrochelys |
Species: | †C. burchardi
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Binomial name | |
†Centrochelys burchardi (Ahl, 1926)
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Synonyms | |
Testudo burchardi Ahl, 1926 |
The Tenerife giant tortoise[1] (Centrochelys burchardi[2]) is an extinct species of cryptodire turtle in the family Testudinidae endemic to the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands during the Middle Pleistocene.
Recently Extinct
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