Carteremys

Carteremys Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Pelomedusidae
Genus:	† Carteremys Williams, 1953
Species:	†C. leithi
Binomial name
†Carteremys leithi Williams, 1953
Synonyms
Hydraspis leithiiCarter, 1852 Testudo leithiiCarter, 1871 Testudo kleinmanni Lortet, 1883

Carteremys is an extinct genus of pelomedusid pleurodiran turtle from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)-Eocene, of India ^[1] based on the type species C. leithi, which was named in 1953 by E. Williams ^[2] and was originally placed in the genera Hydraspis by H. J. Carter in 1852 and Testudo, also by H. J. Carter, in 1871. ^[3] A second species, C. pisdurensis, was named in 1977 by Sohan Lal Jain, ^[4] but it was transferred to the separate genus Jainemys in 2020 by Joyce and Bandyopadhyay. ^[5]

References

1. E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. (2006). Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318
2. E. Williams. (1953). "Hydraspis" leithii (Carter) in the Eocene of India is a Pelomedusid. Breviora 13:1-12
3. Carter, H. J. (1852). Geology of the Island of Bombay. Four Bombay Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc. 21:161-215
4. Jain, S. L. (1977). A new fossil pelomedusid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous Pisdura sediments, central India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20:360-365
5. Walter G. Joyce; Saswati Bandyopadhyay (2020). "A revision of the pelomedusoid turtle Jainemys pisdurensis from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Lameta Formation of India". PeerJ. 8 e9330. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9330 . PMC   7316078 . PMID   32607283.