Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Alternative combination: Plastomenus trionychoides
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1872. Descriptions of some new Vertebrata from the Bridger Group of the Eocene. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12:460-465
Belongs to Apalone according to J. H. Hutchison 1996
Sister taxa: Apalone (Platypeltis), Apalone amorense, Apalone ferox, Apalone lima, Apalone mutica, Apalone spinifera
Type specimen: USNM 4094, a partial shell. Its type locality is Cottonwood Creek badlands (Bridger B), which is in a Bridgerian terrestrial horizon in Wyoming.
Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Apalone trionychoides in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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