PaleoDB taxon number: 364331

Alternative combinations: Geochelone gallardoi, Testudo gallardoi

Full reference: C. Rovereto. 1914. Los Estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Buenos Aire 25:1-24

Belongs to Chelonoidis according to M. S. de la Fuente et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MACN 5206, a partial shell (partial shell of an adult individual). Its type locality is Santa Maria Valley Andalhuala Fm, which is in a Montehermosan/Chapadmalalan terrestrial horizon in the Andalhuala Formation of Argentina.