Staurotypus Wagler 1830 (Mexican musk turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Parent taxon: Kinosternidae according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016

See also Cadena et al. 2012, Carroll 1988, Frank and Ramus 1996, Hutchison 1991 and van Dijk et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Baltemys, Kinosterninae, Kinosternon, Leiochelys, Staurotypinae, Xenochelys, Yelmochelys

Subtaxa: Staurotypus moschus Staurotypus salvini Staurotypus triporcatus

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Type: Staurotypus moschus

Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution: found only at Centenario Bridge (Miocene of Panama)

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