Carteremys Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. (2006). Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318
2. E. Williams. (1953). "Hydraspis" leithii (Carter) in the Eocene of India is a Pelomedusid. Breviora 13:1-12
3. Carter, H. J. (1852). Geology of the Island of Bombay. Four Bombay Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc. 21:161-215
4. 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
5. 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 . 10.7717/peerj.9330 . 32607283 . 7316078 . free .