Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1906. Descriptions of two new genera (Echmatemys and Xenochelys) and two new species (Xenochelys formosa and Terrapene putnami) of fossil turtles. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22(3):27-31
Belongs to Xenochelys according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016
See also Bourque 2013, Hay 1906, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Hutchison 1991 and Hutchison 1996
Sister taxa: Xenochelys bridgerensis, Xenochelys floridensis, Xenochelys lostcabinensis
Type specimen: AMNH 1097, a shell (nearly complete shell). Its type locality is Quinn Draw (Lower Titanotherium Beds), which is in a Chadronian terrestrial horizon in the Chadron Formation of South Dakota.
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (3: South Dakota, Wyoming collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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