Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Alternative combination: Adocus ajilis
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1868. On some Cretaceous Reptilia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20:233-242
Belongs to Adocus according to O. P. Hay 1930
See also Cope 1870, Cope 1871, Hay 1902 and Hay 1908
Sister taxa: 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 orientalis, Adocus planus, Adocus pravus, Adocus sengokuensis, Adocus striatula, Adocus syntheticus, Adocus vigoratus, Homorophus insuetus, Alamosemys annexa, Alamosemys substricta
Type specimen: AMNH 1135, a partial shell (partial plastron). Its type locality is Barnsboro "greensand" (Hornerstown), which is in a Maastrichtian marginal marine horizon in the Hornerstown Formation of New Jersey.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Barnsboro "greensand" (Hornerstown)
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