Jainemys

Jainemys
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, 70.6–66 Ma
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Holotype of Jainemys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: †Bothremydidae
Subfamily: †Kurmademydinae
Tribe: †Kurmademydini
Genus: †Jainemys
Joyce & Bandyopadhyay, 2020
Species:
†J. pisdurensis
Binomial name
†Jainemys pisdurensis
Joyce & Bandyopadhyay, 2020
Synonyms

Jainemys (meaning "Jain's Turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that has been found in the Lameta Formation, India.[1] Originally described by Sohan Lal Jain in 1977 under the name "Carteremys" pisdurensis on the basis of having a deep upper temporal emargination.[2] In 1985 it was assigned to the genus Shweboemys.[3] The species was transferred to the new genus Jainemys by Joyce & Bandyopadhyay in 2020.[1]

The holotype of Jainemys is a partial cranium, and the only element assigned to "Carteremys" not to be reassigned to another genus.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c 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. doi:10.7717/peerj.9330. PMC 7316078. PMID 32607283.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ Wood, R. C. (1984). "Evolution of the Pelomedusid turtles". Studia Palaeocheloniologica. 1: 269–282.