Chitra Gray 1844 (softshell turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Parent taxon: Chitrainae according to S. E. Jasinski et al. 2022

See also Carroll 1988, Frank and Ramus 1996, Lydekker 1889 and van Dijk et al. 2014

Sister taxon: Pelochelys

Subtaxa: Chitra chitra Chitra indica Chitra vandijki

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Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (1 collection), Indonesia (1), Thailand (1)

• Miocene of Nepal (1), Thailand (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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