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Macrochelys

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
Cryptodira

Family
  
Chelydridae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
turtle

Class
  
Reptilia

Clade
  
Americhelydia

Scientific name
  
Macrochelys

Rank
  
genus

Macrochelys Alligator Snapping Turtle Macrochelys temmincki Flickr

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Macrochelys temminckii alligator snapping turtle presented by deadly tarantula girl


Macrochelys is a genus in the family Chelydridae. The genus was considered monospecific until a 2014 study by Travis Thomas divided it into three separate species.

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Macrochelys Macrochelys temminckii Alligator snapping turtle Baker Co Flickr

Species

Currently, there are three extant species and two extinct species.

Macrochelys Macrochelys temminckii 20120909 132953 Mark Mandica Flickr

  • Macrochelys apalachicolae – Apalachicola snapping turtle
  • Macrochelys auffenbergi – from the middle Pliocene of Florida (extinct)
  • Macrochelys schmidti – from the early middle Miocene of Nebraska (extinct)
  • Macrochelys suwanniensis – Suwannee snapping turtle
  • Macrochelys temminckii – Alligator snapping turtle

    • Fossil history

    Unlike the family Chelydridae as a whole, the genus Macrochelys is exclusively North American. Hutchison (2008) considered genus Chelydrops to be a junior synonym of Macrochelys, and recombined its type species, Chelydrops stricta from the Miocene (early Barstovian) of Nebraska, as the (then) fourth species of Macrochelys.

    References

    Macrochelys Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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