Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Alternative combination: Amyda gracilia
Full reference: H. K. Yeh. 1963. Fossil turtles of China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 150:1-113
Belongs to Pelodiscus according to G. L. Georgalis and W. G. Joyce 2017
See also Brinkman et al. 2008 and Yeh 1963
Sister taxa: Pelodiscus axenaria, Pelodiscus maackii, Pelodiscus parviformis, Pelodiscus sinensis, Trionyx sinuosus
Type specimen: IVPP V 1038, a partial skeleton (partly complete carapace with parts of plastron, neck vertebrae and girdles). Its type locality is Gaozhuang Fauna (Teilhard de Chardin's Zone II), Yushe County, Shanxi Province, which is in the Ruscinian of horizon China.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at Gaozhuang Fauna (Teilhard de Chardin's Zone II), Yushe County, Shanxi Province
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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