Colossoemys

Colossoemys
Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Crocodylia
Superfamily: Alligatoroidea
Genus: Colossoemys
Rodrigues, 1892
Species
  • C. macrococcygeana Rodrigues, 1892 (type)

Colossoemys is the nomen dubium of an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian. Based on fossils found in the Solimões Formation, the finds were assigned to Emys macrococcygeanus, a turtle that would have inhabited the Amazon Basin South America during the Pleistocene epoch.[1] The genus was originally named on the basis of two large procoelous vertebrae, a pubis, and a plastral fragment (likely to be from a turtle rather than a crocodilian).[2] The paucity of material associated with the genus has led Colossoemys to be considered a nomen dubium.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Hoorn & Wesselingh, 2011, Chapter Turtles
  2. ↑ Williams, E. E. (1952) A new fossil tortoise from Mona Island, West Indies, and a tentative arrangement of the tortoises of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99: 541-560.

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