Colossoemys
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]
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| Genus: | Colossoemys Rodrigues, 1892 |
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References
- Hoorn & Wesselingh, 2011, Chapter Turtles
- 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.
Bibliography
- Hoorn, Carina, and Frank Wesselingh. 2011. Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past, 1–464. John Wiley & Sons. Accessed 2017-08-13.
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