Kuhnemys Chkhikvadze 1999 (softshell turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Full reference: V. M. Chkhikvadze. 1999. Some fossil soft-shelled turtles of Asia (Rafetini trib. nov.). Trudy Tbilisskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Universiteta 5:215-225

Parent taxon: Kuhnemydinae according to S. E. Jasinski et al. 2022

See also Georgalis and Joyce 2017

Sister taxa: Perochelys, Petrochelys

Subtaxa: Kuhnemys breviplastra Kuhnemys maortuensis Kuhnemys orlovi Kuhnemys palaeocenica

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Type: Aspideretes maortuensis

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Mongolia (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of China (2), Mongolia (9)

Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences

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