Reptilia - Testudines - Pancheloniidae
Alternative spelling: Carolinachelys
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates. Pan-American Geologist 39:101-120
Parent taxon: Pancheloniidae according to R. E. Weems and K. M. Brown 2017
See also Berry and Lynn 1936, Hay 1930, Sanders and Geisler 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Weems 1988 and Weems 2014
Sister taxa: Argillochelys, Australobaena, Ctenochelyidae, Euclastes, Peritresius, Prionochelys
Subtaxa: Carolinochelys wilsoni
Type: Carolinochelys wilsoni
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (3: South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Eocene of United States (1: South Carolina)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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