Subfamily Deirochelyinae Agassiz 1857 (turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae

Parent taxon: Emydidae according to R. E. Weems 2023

See also Ehret and Bourque 2011, Holman 2002, Parham et al. 2008 and van Dijk et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Batagurinae, Callagur, Chelonemys, Chelopus, Chrysemys limnodytes, Clemmys hutchensorum, Clemmys saxea, Deirochelys floridana, Emydinae, Emydoidea, Emydoidea hutchisoni, Emys, Epiemys, Glyptemys, Grayemys, Gyremys, Hieremys, Hybemys, Lyssemys, Malacoclemmys, Palaeotheca, Polyechmatemys, Pseudemys, Pseudemys bisornatus, Pseudemys extincta, Pseudemys hillii, Pseudochrysemys, Pseudograptemys, Pyxidea, Sakya, Senryuemys, Shansiemys, Sharemys, Terrapene

Subtaxa: Chrysemys Deirochelys Graptemys Malaclemys Trachemys

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Type: Deirochelys

Ecology: aquatic omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (4 collections), Bermuda (1), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Quebec), Mexico (1), Panama (2), United States (34: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas)

• Blancan of Mexico (1), United States (4: Florida, Nebraska)

• Pliocene of United States (2: North Carolina, Virginia)

• Hemphillian of United States (10: Florida, Indiana, Nebraska, Tennessee)

• Miocene of Canada (1: Yukon), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (19: Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Nebraska, Texas)

• Oligocene of Kazakhstan (1), United States (2: South Dakota, Virginia)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: South Dakota)

Total: 88 collections including 112 occurrences

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