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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Superfamily: | Testudinoidea |
| Genus: | †Acherontemys Hay, 1899 |
Acherontemys is an extinct genus of turtle from Miocene of United States.
Taxonomy
It was assigned to Chelydridae by Robert L. Carroll in 1988,[1] while Hutchison classified it within Emydidae in 1992.[2] In 2016, it was placed in Panemydidae by Joyce and Borque.[3]
References
- ^ Carroll, R. L. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H Freeman Company, 1988.
- ^ Hutchison, J. H. 1992. Western North American reptile and amphibian record across the Eocene/Oligocene boundary and its climatic implications. Prothero, D. R. & Berggren, W. A. (eds.), Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution 451-463.
- ^ Walter G. Joyce; Jason R. Bourque (2016). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Kinosternoidea" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 57 (1): 57–95. doi:10.3374/014.057.0104.
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