The earliest known crown-Testudo tortoise from the late Miocene (Vallesian, 9 Ma) of Greece

• Géraldine Garcia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: geraldine.garcia@univ-poitiers.fr

  Affiliation PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

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• Aurélie Pinton,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

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• Xavier Valentin,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

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• Dimitris S. Kostopoulos,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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• Gildas Merceron,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

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• Louis de Bonis,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation PALEVOPRIM, UMR CNRS 7262, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

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• George D. Koufos

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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