Reptilia - Testudines - Pangeoemydidae
The species name honours Dang Ngoc Tran, retired director of the International Cooperation Division of the Department of Geology and Minerals of Vietnam, for his untiring support of the excavations carried out by teams from the University of Tubingen from 2009 to 2012.
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
Belongs to Banhxeochelys according to R. C. Garbin et al. 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GPIT/RE/09760, a partial shell (a nearly complete shell lacking left peripherals VII–XI, left costals VII and VIII, the pygal, part of right peripherals VI and VII, and a part of the left xiph). Its type locality is Na Duong Mine layer 80 , which is in a Bartonian/Priabonian lacustrine - large lignite in the Na Duong Formation of Vietnam.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Na Duong Mine layer 80
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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