Enjoy your tour

Home Museum Add Specimen What's This? I Know! Forum Store Books Links Help LogIn Signup

FS245 Tortoise Osteoderm

6.0 cm. Long x 5.0 cm. Wide x 2.5 cm. High

Click on images for other views

Classification: Metazoa, Chordata, Sauropsida, Testudines, Testudinidae, Geochelone, sp.

Description: These come from the heavily armored limbs of tortoises. A glyptodont has similar osteoderms on its armored tail. One is often confused for the other. Tortoise osteoderms are anchored in the skin without articulation with other osteos. Glyptodont tail osteoderms articulate with other osteoderms so they appear right-angled and pitted.

Age: Pleistocene Epoch

Location Found: United States, Florida, Withlacoochee River

Found by: lovevelocat

Custodian: lovevelocat

Identified by: Carl Mehling, hemipristis

References: