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It looks to me like a Burmese Brown. I'm not seeing much that made me think it was a Desert tortoise. The head shape is all wrong for Gopherus. I think it was legit.
--Berkeley
Take a look at those back legs. The Manouria tortoise is sometimes referred to as an 8 legged tortoise because of the very large and pointy spurs on their back legs.
A underside picture would confirm it 100 percent. I still lean toward mt. Tort.Right, but those spurs are under the rear marginals. We wouldn't be able to see them very well even if that picture showing the hind legs was clear. The shape of the shell and the head shape, even the shape of the carapacial scutes, are all wrong for it to be a Gopherus. I still say it was a Manouria.
--Berkeley