Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Full reference: J. R. Bourque and B. W. Schubert. 2015. Fossil musk turtles (Kinosternidae, Sternotherus) from the late Miocene–early Pliocene (Hemphillian) of Tennessee and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(1):1-19

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

See also Bourque and Schubert 2015

Sister taxa: Sternotherus bonevalleyensis, Sternotherus carinatus, Sternotherus depressus, Sternotherus minor, Sternotherus odoratus, Sternotherus pugnatus

Type specimen: ETMNH 13912, a shell. Its type locality is Gray Fossil Site, which is in a Hemphillian/Blancan sinkhole siltstone/conglomerate in Tennessee.

Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution: found only at Gray Fossil Site

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