Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Full reference: F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366
Belongs to Neochelys according to F. Broin 1977
See also Lapparent de Broin 2003 and Pérez-García and Lapparent de Broin 2015
Sister taxa: Neochelys bolcensis, Neochelys capellinii, Neochelys eocaenica, Neochelys franzeni, Neochelys laurenti, Neochelys liriae, Neochelys mengaudi, Neochelys nicolisii, Neochelys salmanticensis, Neochelys zamorensis, Polysternum mengaudi
Type specimen: MNHN RI 45, a partial skeleton (carapace with plastron). Its type locality is Rians, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Lignites de Soissonais Formation of France.
Ecology: aquatic herbivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Rians
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