Jainemys

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Jainemys
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70.6–66  Ma
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Holotype of Jainemys pisdurensis in A) dorsal and B) ventral views.jpg
Holotype of Jainemys
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Bothremydidae
Subfamily: Kurmademydinae
Tribe: Kurmademydini
Genus: Jainemys
Joyce & Bandyopadhyay, 2020
Species:
J. pisdurensis
Binomial name
Jainemys pisdurensis
Joyce & Bandyopadhyay, 2020
Synonyms

Jainemys (meaning "Jain's Turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that has been found in the Lameta Formation, India. [1] Originally described by Sohan Lal Jain in 1977 under the name " Carteremys " pisdurensis on the basis of having a deep upper temporal emargination. [2] In 1985, it was assigned to the genus Shweboemys. [3] The species was transferred to the new genus Jainemys by Joyce & Bandyopadhyay in 2020. [1]

The holotype of Jainemys is a partial cranium, and the only element assigned to "Carteremys" that is not to be reassigned to another genus. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 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. doi:10.1177/0971102319750149.
  3. Wood, R. C. (1984). "Evolution of the Pelomedusid turtles". Studia Palaeocheloniologica. 1: 269–282.