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| Carapace | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Trionychidae |
| Genus: | Rafetus |
| Species: | †R. bohemicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Rafetus bohemicus (Liebus, 1930)
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Rafetus bohemicus is an extinct species of softshell turtle from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Czech Republic. Specimens have been found at the northeastern margin of the Most Basin at a fossil site called Břešt’any. Fossil carapaces of "R. pontanus", a potential taxonomic synonym (although currently considered a nomen dubium), have been found in slightly younger rocks in Lom and Louka u Litvínova.[1]
- ^ Chroust, Milan; Mazuch, Martin; Ivanov, Martin; Alba, David M.; Luján, Àngel H. (2023-07-27). "Redescription of the soft-shell turtle Rafetus bohemicus (Testudines, Trionychidae) from the Early Miocene of Czechia". PeerJ. 11: e15658. doi:10.7717/peerj.15658. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 10387236. PMID 37525660.