Reptilia - Testudines - Pantrionychidae

Genus name honours palaeontologist James Gardner for his foundational work on North American trionychid shell variation. lsid:zoobank.org:act:525093E8-0139-4D81-AFACD5FA3DAB0CEB

Full reference: S. E. Edgar, D. B. Brinkman, M. J. Ryan and D. C. Evans. 2022. A new plastomenid trionychid (Testudines: Pan-Trionychidae) from Milk River Formation of southern Alberta (Cretaceous: Santonian). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 59:205-215

Parent taxon: Plastomenidae according to S. E. Edgar et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Aspideretoides, Atoposemys, Gilmoremys, Plastomenini

Subtaxa: Jimemys glaebosus

view classification

Type: Jimemys glaebosus

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at east side of McDonald Coulee (Cretaceous of Alberta)

Show more details

Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.