Family Kinosternoidea Hay 1892 (mud turtle)
PaleoDB taxon number: 359876
Alternative spellings: Cinosternidae, Kinosternidae
Full reference: O. P. Hay. 1892. The batrachians and reptiles of the State of Indiana. Annual Report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources 17:409-602
Parent taxon: Trionychoidea according to M. T. Carrano 2020
Sister taxa: Adocidae, Basilochelys, Peltochelyidae, Planetochelyidae, Sinaspideretes
Subtaxa: Aromochelys, Cinosternum, Kinosternidae, Pandermatemys
Ecology: aquatic durophage-piscivore