Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1919. New fossil turtles, with notes on two described species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 56(2282):113-132
Belongs to Agomphus according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016
See also Gilmore 1919, Hay 1930, Hutchison and Weems 1998 and Thurmond and Jones 1981
Sister taxa: Agomphus oxysternum, Agomphus pectoralis
Type specimen: USNM 8806, a shell. Its type locality is Moscow Bluff [Porters Creek], which is in a Paleocene coastal siliciclastic in the Porters Creek Formation of Alabama.
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution:
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: South Carolina collection)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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