Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Alternative combination: Adocoides amtgai
Full reference: P. Narmandakh. 1985. [A new species of Adocus from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Paleontologicheskiy Zhurnal 2:85-93
Belongs to Adocus according to E. V. Syromyatnikova et al. 2013
See also Danilov et al. 2011, Narmandakh 1985, Sonoda et al. 2015, Sukhanov 2000, Sukhanov and Narmandakh 2006, Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2009 and Syromyatnikova and Danilov 2013
Sister taxa: Adocus agilis, Adocus aksary, Adocus beatus, Adocus bossi, Adocus bostobensis, Adocus dzhurtasensis, Adocus firmus, Adocus foveatus, 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, Alamosemys substricta, Alamosemys annexa, Homorophus insuetus
Type specimen: PIN 3648-2, a partial shell (plastron). Its type locality is Amtgay [SMPE], which is in a Cenomanian/Santonian terrestrial horizon in the Baynshire Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Mongolia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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