Reptilia - Testudinata - Baenidae

Full reference: E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312

Belongs to Trinitichelys according to W. G. Joyce and T. R. Lyson 2015

See also Gaffney 1972 and Perea et al. 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCZ 4070, a partial skeleton (almost complete skeleton, lacking the lower jaw, caudal vertebrae, distal parts of the limbs, and posterior part of the shell). Its type locality is 1 mile from Hardy, on road to Forestburg, which is in an Albian terrestrial horizon in Texas.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at 1 mile from Hardy, on road to Forestburg

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