Kinosternon skullridgescens Bourque 2012 (mud turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Full reference: J. R. Bourque. 2012. A fossil mud turtle (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the early middle Miocene (early Barstovian) of New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:836-853

Belongs to Kinosternon according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016

Sister taxa: Kinosternon abaxillare, Kinosternon acutum, Kinosternon alamosae, Kinosternon angustipons, Kinosternon arizonense, Kinosternon baurii, Kinosternon chimalhuaca, Kinosternon creaseri, Kinosternon dunni, Kinosternon durangoense, Kinosternon flavescens, Kinosternon herrerai, Kinosternon hirtipes, Kinosternon integrum, Kinosternon leucostomum, Kinosternon notolophus, Kinosternon oaxacae, Kinosternon pannekollops, Kinosternon pojoaque, Kinosternon rincon, Kinosternon scorpioides, Kinosternon sonoriense, Kinosternon subrubrum, Kinosternon wakeeniense

Type specimen: AMNH FAM9090, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is north of White Operation Wash, which is in a Barstovian terrestrial horizon in the Tesuque Formation of New Mexico.

Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution: found only at north of White Operation Wash

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