Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1931. Fossil turtles of Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 59:213-257
Belongs to Adocus according to I. G. Danilov et al. 2011
See also Brinkman et al. 2008, Gilmore 1931 and Yeh 1963
Sister taxa: Adocus agilis, Adocus aksary, Adocus amtgai, Adocus beatus, Adocus bossi, Adocus bostobensis, Adocus dzhurtasensis, Adocus firmus, Adocus foveatus, Adocus hesperius, Adocus inexpectatus, Adocus kazachstanica, Adocus kirtlandius, Adocus kizylkumensis, Adocus kokaku, Adocus lineolatus, Adocus microglypha, Adocus onerosus, Adocus planus, Adocus pravus, Adocus sengokuensis, Adocus striatula, Adocus syntheticus, Adocus vigoratus, Homorophus insuetus, Alamosemys substricta, Alamosemys annexa
Type specimen: AMNH 6356, a partial shell (nearly complete anterior half of the plastron). Its type locality is Ergil Obo (Ergilin Dzo sublocality), which is in an Eocene terrestrial sandstone in the Ergilin Dzo Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of China (1 collection), Mongolia (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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