Cylindraspis
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cylindraspis-284-15214337
title:
Cylindraspis
text:
Cylindraspis is a genus of recently extinct giant tortoises. All of its species lived in the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean and all are now extinct due to hunting and introduction of non-native predators. They are not closely related to any extant group of tortoises, having diverged from the largely African clade including Chelonoidis, Geochelone, and Astrochelys around 40 million years ago during the Eocene, most likely in Africa. The split between species within the genus is also deep,
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of tortoises
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindraspis
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-31T01:02:19Z
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13
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