Murgonemys braithwaitei White 2001 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Pantrionychidae

Full reference: A. W. White. 2001. A new Eocene soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae) from Murgon, south-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 25:37-43

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

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: QM F41129, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine claystone/sandstone in Australia.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Tingamarra Local Fauna - Boat Mountain deposit

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