Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1854. Description of a new genus and some new species of tortoises. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1852:133-135
Parent taxon: Cyclanorbinae according to G. L. Georgalis and W. G. Joyce 2017
See also Carroll 1988, Frank and Ramus 1996 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Cycloderma, Lissemys, Nemegtemys
Subtaxa: Cyclanorbis elegans Cyclanorbis senegalensis Cyclanorbis turkanensis
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (2 collections), Mali (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malawi (1), Uganda (1)
• Pliocene of Kenya (2), Malawi (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Uganda (3)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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