Lapparentemys

Lapparentemys
Temporal range: Danian (Tiupampan)
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Fossil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Podocnemididae
Genus: †
Gaffney et al., 2011
Species:
†L. vilavilensis
Binomial name
†Lapparentemys vilavilensis
(Broin, 1971)

Lapparentemys is an extinct genus of podocnemidid turtles. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Tiupampan Santa Lucía Formation of Bolivia. The type species is L. vilavilensis.[1]

References

  1. ^ Lapparentemys at Fossilworks.org

Further reading

  • Gaffney, Eugene S.; Meylan, Peter A.; Wood, Roger C.; Simons, Elwyn; De Almeida Campos, Diogenes (2011), "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae" (PDF), AMNH Bulletin, 350: 1–237, retrieved 2017-08-15


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