Elseya uberrima
| Elseya uberrima Temporal range: Eocene | |
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| Fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chelodininae |
| Genus: | Elseya |
| Subgenus: | Pelocomastes |
| Species: | E. uberima |
| Binomial name | |
| Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897) | |
Elseya uberrima is an Eocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.
Taxonomy
During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.[1] All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000.[1]
To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
- Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897[2])
This synonymy has made the genus name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015)[3] resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.
References
- 1 2 Thomson SA. 2000. A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45 (2): 593-598. (Brisbane).
- 1 2 3 4 5 De Vis CW. 1897. The extinct freshwater turtles of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 3: 3-7.
- ↑ Thomson, S., Amepou, Y., Anamiato, J. & Georges, A. 2015. A new species and subgenus of Elseya (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from New Guinea. Zootaxa 4006(1):59-82. Preview (PDF)
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