| Jainemys Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | † Bothremydidae |
| Subfamily: | † Kurmademydinae |
| Tribe: | † Kurmademydini |
| Genus: | †
Jainemys Joyce & Bandyopadhyay, 2020 |
| Species: | †J. pisdurensis
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| †Jainemys pisdurensis Joyce & Bandyopadhyay, 2020
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Jainemys (meaning " Jain's Turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that has been found in the Lameta Formation, India. [1] Originally described by Sohan Lal Jain in 1977 under the name " Carteremys" pisdurensis, [2] the species was transferred to the new genus Jainemys by Joyce & Bandyopadhyay in 2020. [1]
The holotype of Jainemys is a partial cranium, and the only element assigned to "Carteremys" not to be reassigned to another genus. [1] [2]
References
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b 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
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