Reptilia - Testudines - Desmatochelyidae

Full reference: G. R. Wieland. 1900. Some Observations on Certain Well-Marked Stages in the Evolution of the Testudinate Humerus. American Journal of Science 9(54):413-424

Parent taxon: Desmatochelyidae according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Atlantochelys

Subtaxa: Neptunochelys tuberosa

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Type: Platecarpus tuberosus

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Columbus (Cretaceous of Mississippi)

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