Carolinochelys Hay 1923 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Pancheloniidae

Alternative spelling: Carolinachelys

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates. Pan-American Geologist 39:101-120

Parent taxon: Pancheloniidae according to R. E. Weems and K. M. Brown 2017

See also Berry and Lynn 1936, Hay 1930, Sanders and Geisler 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Weems 1988 and Weems 2014

Sister taxa: Argillochelys, Australobaena, Ctenochelyidae, Euclastes, Peritresius, Prionochelys

Subtaxa: Carolinochelys wilsoni

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Type: Carolinochelys wilsoni

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of United States (3: South Carolina, Virginia collections)

• Eocene of United States (1: South Carolina)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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