Adocus foveatus Nesov and Khozarskii 1977 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

Belongs to Adocus according to E. V. Syromyatnikova and I. G. Danilov 2013

See also Nessov 1984, Sukhanov 2000 and Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2009

Sister taxa: Adocus agilis, Adocus aksary, Adocus amtgai, Adocus beatus, Adocus bossi, Adocus bostobensis, Adocus dzhurtasensis, Adocus firmus, Adocus hesperius, Adocus inexpectatus, Adocus kazachstanica, Adocus kirtlandius, Adocus kizylkumensis, Adocus kokaku, Adocus lineolatus, Adocus microglypha, Adocus onerosus, Adocus orientalis, Adocus planus, Adocus pravus, Adocus sengokuensis, Adocus striatula, Adocus syntheticus, Adocus vigoratus, Homorophus insuetus, Alamosemys annexa, Alamosemys substricta

Type specimen: ZIN PHT F64-11, a partial shell (left peripheral 4). Its type locality is Kansai, FKA-7a, which is in a Santonian fluvial-deltaic horizon in the Yalovach Formation of Tajikistan.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (1 collection), Tajikistan (4)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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