Arizona Mud Turtle

Continent: Middle-America North-America
Distribution: USA (S Arizona), Mexico (Sonora)

Kinosternon arizonense Gilmore, 1923

[= Kinosternon arizonense Gilmore, 1923; fide, Iverson, 1989:356, Serb et al., 2001:149]

Gilmore, 1923, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus. 62(2451):2, figs. 1–7, pls. 1–5.

Holotype: Smithsonian Department of Vertebrate Paleontology USNM V10463 (fossil male nearly complete carapace and plastron (lacks anterior lobe), lower jaws, fragmentary vertebrae, limb bones, etc. CL “170+ mm”), collected by J. W. Gidley, 1921.

Type Locality: “Benson Locality Quarry, two miles south of Benson, Cochise County, Arizona.” Horizon: Pliocene; San Pedro Formation.

Paratype: USNM V10462 (fossil female partial carapace, plastron and skull, and multiple appendicular and axillary elements, CL “148 mm”), locality and collection data as for holotype.

Etymology: The name arizonense is for the state of Arizona, where the type series was found.

Remarks: This taxon was long known as Kinosternon flavescens stejnegeri Hartweg, 1938:1, before Iverson (1989:356) placed it in the synonymy of Kinosternon arizonense Gilmore, 1923:2.