Jainemys

Jainemys
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70.6–66 Ma
Holotype eroded cranium of Jainemys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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. Originally described by Sohan Lal Jain in 1977 under the name "Carteremys" pisdurensis on the basis of having a deep upper temporal emargination. In 1985, it was assigned to the genus Shweboemys. The species was transferred to the new genus Jainemys by Joyce & Bandyopadhyay in 2020.

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

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.