Reptilia - Testudines - Pangeoemydidae

Banh xeo is a dish from Vietnam that resembles a crepe or pancake. Chelys derived from the Greek, meaning turtle. The genus name is formed in allusion to the highly compressed, pancake-like preservation of the type material. Registered in Zoobank under the LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:63270D91-AC3C-4883-8869-4F2B0DED6822

Full reference: R. C. Garbin, M. Böhme, and W. G. Joyce. 2019. A new testudinoid turtle from the middle to late Eocene of Vietnam. PeerJ 7:e6280:1-39

Parent taxon: Pangeoemydidae according to R. C. Garbin et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Banhxeochelys trani

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Type: Banhxeochelys trani

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Na Duong Mine layer 80 (Eocene to Eocene of Vietnam)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.