Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1892. The batrachians and reptiles of the State of Indiana. Annual Report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources 17:409-602
Parent taxon: Kinosternoidea according to W. G. Joyce and J. R. Bourque 2016
See also Frank and Ramus 1996, Gaffney 1975, Hay 1930, Kuhn 1966 and van Dijk et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Aromochelys, Cinosternum, Pandermatemys
Subtaxa: Baltemys Kinosterninae Kinosternon Leiochelys Staurotypinae Staurotypus Xenochelys Yelmochelys
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Quebec collection), Colombia (1), Ecuador (1), Mexico (6), United States (16: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1), Mexico (3), United States (9: Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico)
• Hemphillian of United States (6: Florida, Nebraska, Tennessee)
• Miocene of Panama (1), United States (11: Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas)
• Arikareean of United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), United States (45: Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), Mexico (6), United States (7: Utah)
Total: 117 collections including 126 occurrences