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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Kinosternidae |
| Genus: | Kinosternon |
| Species: | †K. pojoaque
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| †Kinosternon pojoaque
Bourque, 2012
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Kinosternon pojoaque is an extinct turtle in the genus Kinosternon. It existed in what is now New Mexico, United States, during the Middle Miocene period. It was described by Jason R. Bourque in 2012. [1]
The type specimen was originally discovered by Galusha and Blick in the Pojoaque Member of the Tesuque Formation. [1]
References
- ^ a b Jason R. Bourque (2012). "An extinct mud turtle of the Kinosternon flavescens group (Testudines, Kinosternidae) from the middle Miocene (late Barstovian) of New Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 68–81. Bibcode: 2012JVPal..32...68B. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.626824. S2CID 84889382.
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