Nigeremys

Nigeremys
Temporal range: Maastrichtian–Eocene
Nigeremys fossil skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: †Bothremydidae
Genus: †Nigeremys
Broin, 1977
Species:
†N. gigantea
Binomial name
†Nigeremys gigantea
Broin, 1977

Nigeremys ("Niger turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle from Niger, Mali and Syria. The genus consists exclusively of the combinatio nova of the type species N. gigantea.

Discovery

Nigeremys was described in 1977.

References

  1. 1 2 F. Broin. 1977. Contribution à l'étude des Chéloniens. Chéloniens continentaux du Cretacé et du Tertiare de France. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Série, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366
  2. ↑ Fossilworks: Phosphatochelys fossilworks.org Retrieved 2021-01-05