Roxochelys Price 1953 (sideneck turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemidoidae

Full reference: L. I. Price. 1953. Os Quelônios da Formação Bauru, Cretáceo terrestre do Brasil meridional. Boletim do Departamento Nacional da Produção Mineral/Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia, Rio de Janeiro 147:1-34

Parent taxon: Podocnemidoidae according to J. P. Bogado et al. 2023

See also Carroll 1988, de la Fuente et al. 2014, Ferreira et al. 2018, Gaffney et al. 2011, Oliveira and Romano 2007 and Price 1953

Sister taxa: Amabilis, Brasilemydidae

Subtaxa: Roxochelys harrisi Roxochelys vilavilensis Roxochelys wanderleyi

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Type: Roxochelys wanderleyi

Ecology: amphibious omnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene to Eocene of Peru (1 collection)

• Paleocene of Bolivia (4)

• Cretaceous of Bolivia (1), Brazil (8)

Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence

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