Staurotypus Wagler 1830 (Mexican musk turtle)
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Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Parent taxon: Kinosternidae according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016
See also Cadena et al. 2012, Carroll 1988, Frank and Ramus 1996, Hutchison 1991 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Baltemys, Kinosterninae, Kinosternon, Leiochelys, Staurotypinae, Xenochelys, Yelmochelys
Subtaxa: Staurotypus moschus Staurotypus salvini Staurotypus triporcatus
Type: Staurotypus moschus
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution: found only at Centenario Bridge (Miocene of Panama)
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