Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Alternative combination: Aspideretes maortuensis

Synonyms: Aspideretes alashanensis Yeh 1965, Trionyx alashanensis Yeh 1965

Full reference: H. K. Yeh. 1965. New materials of fossil turtles of Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata Palasiatica 9:47-69

Belongs to Kuhnemys according to G. L. Georgalis and W. G. Joyce 2017

See also Brinkman et al. 2008 and Karl 1999

Sister taxa: Kuhnemys breviplastra, Kuhnemys orlovi, Kuhnemys palaeocenica

Type specimens:

• Kuhnemys maortuensis: IVPP V 2864, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Maortu, which is in a Turonian terrestrial horizon in the Ulansuhai Formation of China.
• Aspideretes alashanensis: IVPP V 2865, a partial skeleton (carapace with its anterior part broken). Its type locality is Maortu, which is in a Turonian terrestrial horizon in the Ulansuhai Formation of China.
• Trionyx alashanensis: IVPP V2865, a partial shell.

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.