Bairdemys Explained

Bairdemys is an extinct genus of side-necked turtles in the family Podocnemididae. The genus existed from the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene and its fossils have been found in South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Panama and Venezuela. The genus was described in 2002 by Gaffney & Wood and the type species is B. hartsteini.

Description

The first species in the genus described was B. venezuelensis as Podocnemis venezuelensis by Wood and Díaz de Gamero in 1971.[1]

Species

Phylogeny

Bairdemys was placed phylogenetically by Ferreira et al. in 2015.[2]

Distribution

Fossils of Bairdemys have been found in:[3]

Late Oligocene
Early-Mid Miocene
Late Miocene

See also

References

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Gaffney et al., 2008
  2. Ferreira et al., 2015, p.10
  3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=253848 Bairdemys