Species of sea turtle, possibly the endangered green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas. De Quadrup. Oviparis, altera figura Testudinis marinaea, Valerius Cordo, Testudines marinae amphibiae. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De Quadrupedibus Oviparis, (Natural history of animals: oviparous quadrupeds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1586.

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