Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise, Cylindraspis vosmaeri. Hunted to extinction around 1800. Riesenschildkrote, Testudo vosmaeri. Colour printed illustration by F. John from Wilhelm Bolsche’s Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World), Reichardt Cocoa company, Hamburg, 1908.

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