Chelonoidis_alburyorum
Chelonoidis alburyorum
Extinct species of tortoise
Chelonoidis alburyorum is an extinct species of giant tortoise that lived in the Lucayan Archipelago (including The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands) from the Late Pleistocene to around 1400 CE.[1] The species was discovered and described by Richard Franz and Shelley E. Franz, the findings being published in 2009.[2]