Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Synonym: Stylemys conspecta Hay 1908

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568

Belongs to Stylemys according to E. Vlachos 2018

See also Auffenberg 1963, Auffenberg 1964, Brattstrom 1961, Hay 1908 and Hay 1930

Sister taxa: Stylemys bottii, Stylemys frizaciana, Stylemys gisellae, Stylemys inusitata, Stylemys karakolensis, Stylemys nebrascensis, Stylemys oregonensis, Stylemys pygmea, Testudo niobrarensis

Type specimens:

• Stylemys capax: Its type locality is John Day (non-specific), which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in the John Day Formation of Oregon
• Stylemys conspecta: AMNH 1358 (holotype), a shell. Its type locality is John Day (non-specific), which is in an Arikareean terrestrial horizon in the John Day Formation of Oregon.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at John Day (non-specific)

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