Bairdemys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides, Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3359

By

Gaffney, Eugene S.

Wood, Roger Conant

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2002

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Caption title.

"March 26, 2002."

A new genus, Bairdemys, is erected for two species of side-necked turtles. Bairdemys venezuelensis (Wood and Díaz de Gamero, 1971) from the late Miocene Urumaco Formation of Venezuela is represented by four skulls and a number of shells. Bairdemys hartsteini from the Miocene of Puerto Rico is known from a skull. Bairdemys is a member of the Podocnemididae because it possesses a cavum pterygoideus, and is related to the Shweboemys Group because it has a well-developed secondary palate. It differs from all other Podocnemididae in having large ventral convexities on the secondary palate, the eustachian tube separated by bone from the fenestra postotica, and the frontal and prefrontal strongly convex dorsally.

Subjects

Bairdemys , Miocene , Paleontology , Puerto Rico , Reptiles, Fossil , Turtles, Fossil , Venezuela

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3359 2002

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2002)359<0001:BANSNT>2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 49534856