Colossoemys

Colossoemys is the nomen dubium of an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian. Based on fossils found in the Solimões Formation, the finds were assigned to Emys macrococcygeanus, a turtle that would have inhabited the Amazon Basin South America during the Pleistocene epoch.[1] The genus was originally named on the basis of two large procoelous vertebrae, a pubis, and a plastral fragment (likely to be from a turtle rather than a crocodilian).[2] The paucity of material associated with the genus has led Colossoemys to be considered a nomen dubium.[1]

Colossoemys
Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Colossoemys

Rodrigues, 1892
Species
  • C. macrococcygeana Rodrigues, 1892 (type)

References

  1. Hoorn & Wesselingh, 2011, Chapter Turtles
  2. Williams, E. E. (1952) A new fossil tortoise from Mona Island, West Indies, and a tentative arrangement of the tortoises of the world. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99: 541-560.

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