Mokelemys

Mokelemys
Temporal range: Early Pliocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Podocnemididae
Genus: †Mokelemys
Species:
†M. mbembe
Binomial name
†Mokelemys mbembe
Pérez-García, 2022

Mokelemys is an extinct genus of erymnochelyin turtle that lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch.

Etymology

Mokelemys mbembe is named after the cryptid mokele-mbembe.

References

  1. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". Retrieved 11 January 2026.
  2. ↑ Pérez‐García, Adán (23 September 2022). "A lower Pliocene Erymnochelyini turtle (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo". The Anatomical Record. 306 (6): 1396–1410. doi:10.1002/ar.25073. ISSN 1932-8486. Retrieved 11 January 2026 – via Wiley Online Library.