Agomphus alabamensis Gilmore 1919 (mud turtle)

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

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