Reptilia - Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Full reference: S. E. Jasinski, A. B. Heckert, C. Sailar, A. J. Lichtig, S. G. Lucas and P. Dodson. 2022. A softshell turtle (Testudines: Trionychidae: Plastomeninae) from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota, USA, with implications for the evolutionary relationships of plastomenines and other trionychids. Cretaceous Research 135:105172
Belongs to Hutchemys according to S. E. Jasinski et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Aspideretes nassau, Hutchemys acupictus, Hutchemys arctochelys, Hutchemys rememdium, Hutchemys sterea, Hutchemys tetanetron
Type specimen: BDM 063, a carapace (incomplete carapace). Its type locality is 1975-BDM-01, which is in a Lancian terrestrial mudstone in the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution: found only at 1975-BDM-01
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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