Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

Alternative combination: Zygoramma striatula

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. On the Adocidæ. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11(81):547-553

Belongs to Adocus according to J. H. Hutchison and R. E. Weems 1998

See also Cope 1871, Hay 1902, Hay 1908 and Hay 1930

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 orientalis, Adocus planus, Adocus pravus, Adocus sengokuensis, Adocus syntheticus, Adocus vigoratus, Homorophus insuetus, Alamosemys annexa, Alamosemys substricta

Type specimen: AMNH 2358, a partial shell (greater portion of both hypoplastra, 5 posterior peripherals, and fragments of 3 costal bones). Its type locality is Pemberton Marl Company pit (Hornerstown), which is in a Maastrichtian marginal marine marl in the Hornerstown Formation of New Jersey.

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Pemberton Marl Company pit (Hornerstown)

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