| Caririemys Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | †Euraxemydidae |
| Genus: | †Caririemys Oliveira and Kellner, 2007 |
| Species: | †C. violetae
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| †Caririemys violetae Oliveira and Kellner, 2007
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Caririemys is an extinct genus of side-necked turtles, belonging to the Pelomedusoides of the family Euraxemydidae. The type species is C. violetae. A single fossil of an individual was found in the Santana Formation in Brazil, an 80-million-year-old Late Cretaceous deposit that has so far preserved other fossil reptiles such as dinosaurs and crocodilians.[1]
- ^ de Oliveira, Gustavo Ribeiro; Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner (2007-03-15). "A new side-necked turtle (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides) from the Santana Formation (Early Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil". Zootaxa. 1425: 53–61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1425.1.7. Retrieved 2008-12-16.