Floridemys nana Hay 1916 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Alternative combinations: Bystra nana, Bystra nanus, Floridemys nanus

Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1916. Descriptions of some Floridian fossil vertebrates, belonging mostly to the Pleistocene. Annual Report of the Florida State Geological Survey 8:39-76

Belongs to Floridemys according to E. Vlachos 2018

See also Auffenberg 1963 and Hay 1930

Sister taxa: Floridemys hurdi, Floridemys nancei

Type specimen: USNM 10247, a shell (complete shell). Its type locality is Holder, which is in a Miocene terrestrial phosphorite in the Alachua Formation of Florida.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Holder

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