Reptilia - Testudines - Chelydridae
Synonym: Macrocephalochelys Pidoplichko and Tarashchuk 1960
Full reference: K. Peters. 1868. Zur Kenntnis der Wirbelthiere aus den Miocenschichten von Eibiswald in Steiermark. I. Die Schildkrötenreste. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Classe 57:72-74
Parent taxon: Chelydridae according to W. G. Joyce et al. 2022
See also Böhme 2008, Carroll 1988, de Lapparent de Broin 2000, Hutchison 2008, Joyce 2016, Klein and Mors 2003, Mlynarski 1980, Mlynarski 1981 and Mlynarski 1984
Sister taxa: Broilia, Broilia robusta, Chelydra, Chelydra argillarum, Chelydra strausi, Chelydrinae, Chelydrops, Chelydropsinae, Chelydropsis minax, Emys sansaniensis, Emysaurus meilheuratiae, Hydraspis oeningensis, Leptochelys, Leptochelys braneti, Macrochelys, Planiplastron, Protochelydrinae, Testudo grandis
Subtaxa: Chelydropsis apellanizi Chelydropsis aubasi Chelydropsis decheni Chelydropsis kusnetzovi Chelydropsis manuascensis Chelydropsis murchisoni Chelydropsis pontica Chelydropsis sansaniensis
Type: Chelydropsis carinata
Ecology: aquatic piscivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Germany (1 collection), Kazakhstan (1), Slovakia (2), Ukraine (1)
• Miocene of Austria (2), France (10), Germany (15), Poland (1), Spain (17), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of France (1)
• Oligocene of France (8), Germany (2)
• Eocene of France (1), Germany (1)
Total: 65 collections including 66 occurrences
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