Abstract
THE fossil chelonian material loaned to me by Prof. R. Dart, of the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, for examination consists of 36 fragments from the early Middle Pleistocene grey breccia of Makapansgat Limeworks in the Transvaal. This fossil material was compared with complete and fragmented skeletal material of Testudo pardalis babcocki, Kinyxs belliana belliana and Pelusios sinuatus, all of which occur in the area today. The fossil fragments were all from large animals and none was referable to the genera Chersina, Psammopbates, Homopus or Pelomedusa, which were also available for comparison.
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BROADLEY, D. Some Fossil Chelonian Fragments from Makapansgat. Nature 194, 791–792 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194791b0
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