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Back in the Galapagos, Sir David also visited a colony of angulate tortoises, best known for bloody "jousting" using lances on the front of their enormous shells.
78) dextral, up to 30 mm, thick, elongate and acute-conical, 7-14 whorls, apical whorls bearing 1-3 carinae; body whorl shouldered at outer periphery, striate below; aperture angulate, lacrimate, canaliculate (Harmen & Berg 1971); growth lines inconspicuous; subfossils usually fragmented, lack periostracum.
Displaced fractures will usually angulate in an apex volar direction due to attachments of the interossei muscles.
 
 
 
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