Leiochelys Brinkman et al. 2023 (mud turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

Zoobank genus: zoobank.org:act:A05F26745533-4865-BDE0-D477858515F4

Etymologyfrom the Greek leios for smooth and chelys for turtle, in reference for the smooth shell of the turtle.

Full reference: D. B. Brinkman, C. Libke, R. C. McKellar, S. Gasilov, and C. M. Somers. 2023. A new pan-kinosternid, Leiochelys tokaryki, gen. et sp. nov., from the late Maastrichtian Frenchman formation, Saskatchewan Canada. The Anatomical Record 306(6):1481-1500

Parent taxon: Kinosternidae according to D. B. Brinkman et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Baltemys, Kinosterninae, Kinosternon, Staurotypinae, Staurotypus, Xenochelys, Yelmochelys

Subtaxa: Leiochelys tokaryki

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Type: Leiochelys tokaryki

Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore

Distribution: found only at RSM site number 28769 ("Site B") (Cretaceous of Saskatchewan)

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