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2, UGAMNH1728; left peripheral 1 and 2, UGAMNH1726; right peripheral 

 1, 2 and 3, UGAMNH1692; left peripheral 1, 2, 3 and pleural 1, 

 UGAMNH1720; left peripheral 3, UGAMNH1722; left 

 peripheral 3 and 4, UGAMNHA1721; right peripheral 3 and 4, 

 UGAMNH1708; right peripheral 5, UGAMNH1688, 1706; left 

 peripheral 5, UGAMNH1691; right peripheral 6 and 7 and pleural 4 

 and 5, UGAMNH1710; right peripheral 6, 7, and 8, UGAMNH1712; 

 left peripheral 7, UGAMNH1684; left peripheral 8, UGAMNH1702; 

 left peripheral 8, 9, and 10, UGAMNH1694; right peripheral 9, 10, 

 and 11, UGAMNH1733; left peripheral 10, UGAMNH1689; right 

 peripheral 10 and 11, UGAMNH1695, UGAMNH1718; left peripheral 

 10 and 11, UGAMNH1719, 1734; right peripheral 10 and 11 and 

 pygal, UGAMNH1711; left peripheral 11, UGAMNH1701; left 

 peripheral 11 and pygal, UGAMNH1709; left and right peripheral 11 

 and pygal, UGAMNH1717; right peripheral 11, UGAMNH1724; left 

 pleural 2 and peripheral 4 and 5, UGAMNH1700; pygal, 

 UGAMNH1683, UGAMNH1723; left xiphiplastron, UGAMNH1327, 

 1729; left and right xiphiplastron, UGAMNH1693. 



Remarks — Terrapene Carolina can be distinguished from its extinct 

 relative T. Carolina putnami based on smaller size. It is a terrestrial 

 woodland species (Conant 1975). 



Terrapene Carolina putnami Hay 

 Giant Box Turtle 



Material — Right epiplastron, UGAMNH1860; left hypoplastron at 

 inguinal notch, UGAMNH1855; left hypoplastron and epiplastron and 

 entoplastron, UGAMNH1863; right hypoplastron and xiphiplastron, 

 UGAMNH1864; neural 1 and pleural and peripheral 1, UGAMNH1856; 

 nuchal, UGAMNH1865; left peripheral 3 and 4, UGAMNH1858; right 

 peripheral 6 and 7, UGAMNH1859; right peripheral 10 and 11 and 

 pygal, UGAMNH1862; right peripheral 1, UGAMNH1849; left 

 peripheral 2, 3, and 4, UGAMNH1848; left peripheral 4, 5, and 6, 

 UGAMNH1861; right peripheral 6, UGAMNH185; left peripheral 7 

 and 8, UGAMNH1852; left peripheral 8 and 9, UGAMNH1853; right 

 peripheral 9, UGAMNH1847; left peripheral 10 and 11, 

 UGAMNH1854; left pleural 2 and 3 and peripheral 4 and 5, 

 UGAMNH1857; right pleural 2 and 3, UGAMNH1850. 



Remarks — This extinct giant subspecies is common in late 

 Pleistocene deposits of Florida where it occurred in coastal marshes 

 and lowland savannahs. (Auffenberg 1958, Kurten and Anderson 1980). 

 It is readily distinguishable on the basis of its large size. 



