Reptilia - Testudines - Bothremydidae
Full reference: E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318
Belongs to Bothremys according to E. S. Gaffney et al. 2006
See also Rabi et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Bothremys arabicus, Bothremys cooki, Bothremys kellyi
Type specimen: AMNH 30561, a skull (nearly complete skull). Its type locality is Ouled Abdoun Basin Recette 4, which is in a Danian marine phosphorite in the Couche 2 Formation of Morocco.
Ecology: amphibious omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Morocco (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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