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Extinct genus of turtle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carteremys is an extinct genus of pelomedusid pleurodiran turtle from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)-Eocene, of India[1] based on the type species C. leithi, which was named in 1953 by E. Williams[2] and was originally placed in the genera Hydraspis by H. J. Carter in 1852 and Testudo, also by H. J. Carter, in 1871.[3] A second species, C. pisdurensis, was named in 1977 by Sohan Lal Jain,[4] but it was transferred to the separate genus Jainemys in 2020 by Joyce and Bandyopadhyay.[5]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | Pelomedusidae |
Genus: | †Carteremys Williams, 1953 |
Species: | †C. leithi |
Binomial name | |
†Carteremys leithi Williams, 1953 | |
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