Rheodytes devisi Thomson 2000 (sideneck turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Chelidae

Full reference: S. A. Thomson. 2000. A revision of the fossil chelid turtles (Pleurodira) described by C. W. de Vis (1897). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45:593-598

Belongs to Rheodytes according to I. J. Maniel and M. S. de la Fuente 2016

Sister taxon: Rheodytes leukops

Type specimen: QM 16-1106B, a partial shell. Its type locality is Darling Downs, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Australia.

Ecology: amphibious piscivore

Distribution: found only at Darling Downs

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