Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1872. On a new genus of Pleurodira from the Eocene of Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (separate) 1-6
Belongs to Notomorpha according to J. R. Bourque et al. 2015
See also Cope 1872, Cope 1872, Cope 1873, Hay 1902, Hay 1908, Joyce and Bourque 2016 and Knauss et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Baptemys garmanii, Baptemys nanus, Notomorpha gravis
Type specimen: USNM 4103, 4129 (one individual), a partial shell. Its type locality is A point near Bear River, 6 miles north of Evanston, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in Wyoming.
Ecology: aquatic herbivore-omnivore
Distribution: found only at A point near Bear River, 6 miles north of Evanston
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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