Araripemydidae

Araripemydidae; Temporal range: 100–55 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Araripemydidae (Araripemys barretoi)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Hyperfamily:	†Pelomedusoides
Family:	†Araripemydidae; Price, 1973
Genera
	Araripemys; Laganemys

Araripemydidae is a family of turtles belonging to the order Testudines. There are no living representatives of the family but fossil records have been used to identify it as part of the Pleurodira suborder. There are five collections of single fossils, four that were found in Brazil and one that was found in Niger.[1] The family contains two recognised genera, Araripemys and Laganemys, and two species, Araripemys barretoi and Laganemys tenerensis.[2] Fossils indicate they lived from the Late Cretaceous period (100mya) to the Paleocene period (55mya).[3]

References

"family Araripemydidae Price 1973 (sideneck turtle)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
Gaffney, Eugene S.; Tong, Haiyan; Meylan, Peter A. (2006). "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 300. hdl:2246/5824.
Sereno, Paul C.; ElShafie, Sara J. (2013). "A New Long-Necked Turtle, Laganemys tenerensis (Pleurodira: Araripemydidae), from the Elrhaz Formation (Aptian–Albian) of Niger". In Brinkman, D.B.; et al. (eds.). Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. pp. 215–250. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_14. ISBN 978-94-007-4308-3.

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[1] "family Araripemydidae Price 1973 (sideneck turtle)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

[2] Gaffney, Eugene S.; Tong, Haiyan; Meylan, Peter A. (2006). "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 300. hdl:2246/5824.

[3] Sereno, Paul C.; ElShafie, Sara J. (2013). "A New Long-Necked Turtle, Laganemys tenerensis (Pleurodira: Araripemydidae), from the Elrhaz Formation (Aptian–Albian) of Niger". In Brinkman, D.B.; et al. (eds.). Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. pp. 215–250. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_14. ISBN 978-94-007-4308-3.