Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Belongs to Trionyx according to H.-V. Karl 2013
See also Karl 2007, Okazaki and Yoshida 1977 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Trionyx admirabilis, Trionyx aequa, Trionyx allani, Trionyx austerus, Trionyx baynshirensis, Trionyx beecheri, Trionyx boulengeri, Trionyx capellinii, Trionyx dissolutus, Trionyx ellipticus, Trionyx eloisae, Trionyx foveatus, Trionyx gangeticus, Trionyx gilbentuensis, Trionyx gobiensis, Trionyx gregarius, Trionyx henrici, Trionyx ikoviensis, Trionyx jixiensis, Trionyx johnsoni, Trionyx kansaiensis, Trionyx latus, Trionyx leucopotamicus, Trionyx linchuensis, Trionyx miensis, Trionyx minusculus, Trionyx miocaenus, Trionyx mira, Trionyx ninae, Trionyx nopcsai, Trionyx onomatoplokos, Trionyx phayrei, Trionyx pliocenicus, Trionyx reesidei, Trionyx riabinini, Trionyx robustus, Trionyx shiluutulensis, Trionyx silvestris, Trionyx singularis, Trionyx uintaensis, Trionyx vindobonensis
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Egypt (7 collections), Mali (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)
• MN 13 of Türkiye (1)
• Miocene of Germany (5), Libya (1), Slovenia (2), Türkiye (4)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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