Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

Full reference: R. E. Weems and R. A. George. 2013. Amphibians and nonmarine turtles from the Miocene Calvert Formation of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia (USA). Journal of Paleontology 87(4):53-66

Belongs to Floridemys according to R. E. Weems 2023

See also Vlachos 2018 and Weems and George 2013

Sister taxa: Floridemys nana, Floridemys nancei

Type specimen: CMM 4666 (holotype), a partial shell (nuchal). Its type locality is Chesapeake Bay (Upper Calvert), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian transition zone/lower shoreface claystone in the Calvert Formation of Maryland.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-herbivore

Distribution: found only at Chesapeake Bay (Upper Calvert)

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