Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

Alternative combination: Amyda buiei

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14(1):1-252

Belongs to Trionyx according to E. D. Cope 1870

Sister taxa: Trionyx aquitanicus, Trionyx barbarae, Trionyx bowerbanki, Trionyx gangeticus, Trionyx gergensi, Trionyx halophilus, Trionyx henrici, Trionyx hurum, Trionyx ikoviensis, Trionyx incrassatus, Trionyx kansaiensis, Trionyx kyrgyzensis, Trionyx miensis, Trionyx parisiensis, Trionyx phayrei, Trionyx planus, Trionyx rivosus, Trionyx sculptus, Trionyx vittatus

Type specimen: AMNH specimen, an osteoderm (fragments of a costal bone). Its type locality is Near Mount Olive, which is in a Miocene terrestrial horizon in North Carolina.

Ecology: aquatic piscivore-carnivore