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I.—Note on the Gigantic Land Tortoise (Testudo Ammon, Andrews), from the Upper Eocene of Egypt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

C. W. Andrews
C. W. Andrews
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History).
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In the course of his excavations in the Upper Eocene beds of the Fayûm during the early part of 1902, Mr. H. J. L. Beadnell unearthed a remarkably fine shell of a very large species of Testudo. A brief description of this specimen was afterwards published in Cairo by the present writer, and it was made the type of a new species, Testudo Ammon. At the same time Mr. Beadnell gave a short account of the beds in which it was found, and of the methods employed by him for its preservation and transport to the Museum in Cairo.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 11 , November 1904 , pp. 527 - 530
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1904

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References

page 527 note 1 “A Preliminary Notice of a Land Tortoise from the Upper Eocene of the Fayüm, Egypt,” by Andrews, C. W. and Beadnell, H. J. L., Survey Department, Cairo, 1903.Google Scholar