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Megalochelys is the original and valid name for what has often been called Colossochelys. Megalochelys atlas is the largest known member of Testudinidae, with a shell length of about 2.1 m (6.9 ft), an estimated total length of 2.5 to 2.7 m (8.2 to 8.9 ft), and an approximate total height of 1.8 m (5.9 ft). weights based on volumetric displacement of the skeleton, or inferences based on two-dimensional skeletal drawings, indicate that M. atlas was probably closer to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) – 952 kg (2,099 lb) in mass. M. atlas is thus the largest known land tortoise.
During the dry glacial periods it ranged from western India and Pakistan (possibly even as far west as southern and eastern Europe) to as far east as Sulawesi and Timor in Indonesia. It is estimated to have lived from the Miocene up until its extinction, 10000 BC.

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Description
Megalochelys is the original and valid name for what has often been called Colossochelys. Megalochelys atlas is the largest known member of Testudinidae, with a shell length of about 2.1 m (6.9 ft), an estimated total length of 2.5 to 2.7 m (8.2 to 8.9 ft), and an approximate total height of 1.8 m (5.9 ft). weights based on volumetric displacement of the skeleton, or inferences based on two-dimensional skeletal drawings, indicate that M. atlas was probably closer to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) – 952 kg (2,099 lb) in mass. M. atlas is thus the largest known land tortoise.
During the dry glacial periods it ranged from western India and Pakistan (possibly even as far west as southern and eastern Europe) to as far east as Sulawesi and Timor in Indonesia. It is estimated to have lived from the Miocene up until its extinction, 10000 BC.

This is submitted as my entry for 's March contest:

palaeolithikum.deviantart.com/…