Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae

Suggested Japanese name: Tanegashima hanagame. Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the name of the island (Tanegashima Island) from which the fossil was discovered.

Full reference: A. Takahashi, K. Oki, T. Ishido and R. Hirayama. 2013. A new species of the genus Ocadia (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the middle Miocene of Tanegashima Island, southwestern Japan and its paleogeographic implications. Zootaxa 3647(4):527-540

Belongs to Ocadia according to A. Takahashi et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Ocadia nicoleti, Ocadia nipponica, Ocadia perplexa, Ocadia sansaniensis, Ocadia turgaica

Type specimen: MTE1, a shell. Its type locality is Kaminaka crossroad on Prefectural Road 588, which is in a Miocene lacustrine - large mudstone in the Kawachi Formation of Japan.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Kaminaka crossroad on Prefectural Road 588

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