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Sternotherus (musk turtle)
Taxonomy
Sternotherus was named by Gray (1825). It is extant.
It was assigned to Kinosternidae by Shoshani et al. (1989) and Ernst and Barbour (1989); to Kinosterninae by Hutchison (1991) and van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Kinosterninae by Joyce and Bourque (2016).
It was assigned to Kinosternidae by Shoshani et al. (1989) and Ernst and Barbour (1989); to Kinosterninae by Hutchison (1991) and van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Kinosterninae by Joyce and Bourque (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Sternotherus Gray |
| 1989 | Sternotherus Ernst and Barbour |
| 1989 | Stenothernus Shoshani et al. p. 436 |
| 1991 | Sternotherus Hutchison p. 155 |
| 2014 | Sternotherus van Dijk et al. |
| 2016 | Sternotherus Joyce and Bourque |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Sternotherus Gray 1825 [musk turtle]
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†Sternotherus bonevalleyensis Bourque and Schubert 2015
Sternotherus carinatus Gray 1856 [Razor-backed musk turtle]
Sternotherus depressus Tinkle and Webb 1955 [Flattened musk turtle]
Sternotherus minor Agassiz 1857 [Loggerhead musk turtle]
Sternotherus odoratus Latreille 1801 [Common musk turtle]
†Sternotherus palaeodorus Bourque and Schubert 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the early Early Hemphillian to the top of the Holocene or 10.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 9.4 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 9.4 Ma
Collections (16 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Clarendonian | USA (Nebraska) | Sternotherus odoratus (188779) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Sternotherus bonevalleyensis (190949) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Sternotherus bonevalleyensis (18599) | |
| early Early Hemphillian - late Early Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Kinosternidae indet. (18539) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Tennessee) | Sternotherus sp., Sternotherus palaeodorus (26574) | |
| Blancan | USA (Florida) | Sternotherus sp. (113275) | |
| Pleistocene | USA (Florida) | Sternotherus sp. (206227 227368) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Kansas) | Sternotherus odoratus (20390 20422) | |
| Rancholabrean | USA (Florida) | Sternotherus sp. (20440) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Texas) | Sternotherus sp. (93259) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Georgia) | Sternotherus sp. (20604 20613) | |
| Holocene | USA (Florida) | Sternotherus sp. (227371) | |
| Holocene | Canada (Quebec) | Sternotherus odoratus (224189) |