Ptychogaster pomeli Lydekker 1889 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History) Part III. The Order Chelonia 1-239

Belongs to Ptychogaster according to R. Lydekker 1889

Sister taxa: Ptychogaster (Temnoclemmys), Ptychogaster bardenensis, Ptychogaster batalleri, Ptychogaster cayluxensis, Ptychogaster emydoides, Ptychogaster kinkelini, Ptychogaster ronheimensis

Type specimen: BMNH 30936, a partial shell (conjoined epiplastrals, imperfect posteriorly). Its type locality is St-Gérand-le-Puy, which is in an Aquitanian fluvial-lacustrine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in France.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at St-Gérand-le-Puy

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