Subtribe Apalonina Meylan 1987 (softshell turtle)
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Full reference: P. A. Meylan. 1987. The phylogenetic relationships of soft-shelled turtles (family Trionychidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 186(1):1-101
Parent taxon: Trionychini according to N. S. Vitek and I. G. Danilov 2015
See also Meylan 1987
Sister taxa: Gobiapalone, Oliveremys, Rafetoides, Rafetoidina, Trionychina
Subtaxa: Ulutrionyx
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Myn-Sai (Oligocene of Kazakhstan)