Nigeremys

Nigeremys
Temporal range:
Nigeremys fossil skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: †Bothremydidae
Genus: †
Broin, 1977
Species:
†N. gigantea
Binomial name
†Nigeremys gigantea
Broin, 1977

Nigeremys ("Niger turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle from Niger, Mali and Syria.[1] The genus consists exclusively of the combinatio nova of the type species N. gigantea.[2]

Discovery

Nigeremys was described in 1977.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366
  2. ^ Fossilworks: Phosphatochelys fossilworks.org Retrieved 2021-01-05


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