Family Dermatemydidae Baur 1888 (mud turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Parent taxon: Pandermatemys according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016

See also Baur 1893, Bourque et al. 2015, Carroll 1988, Estes 1964, Estes and Berberian 1970, Frank and Ramus 1996, Gadow 1898, Gaffney 1975, Hay 1908, Hay 1930, Jaekel 1911, Joyce et al. 2004, Khosatzky and Mlynarski 1971, Knauss et al. 2011, Kuhn 1946, Kuhn 1966, Lydekker 1889, Mlynarski 1972, Perrier 1928, Thurmond and Jones 1981, van Dijk et al. 2014 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Agomphus, Baptemys, Hoplochelys

Subtaxa: Cardichelyon Dermatemys Kallistira Lindholmemydinae Peshanemys

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Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution:

• Hemphillian of Mexico (1 collection)

• Miocene of United States (1: Texas)

• Eocene of United States (19: Colorado, Texas, Wyoming)

• Clarkforkian of United States (13: Colorado, Wyoming)

• Paleocene of United States (2: Colorado, Wyoming)

• Cretaceous of China (2)

Total: 38 collections each including a single occurrence

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