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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | †Bothremydidae |
| Subfamily: | †Bothremydinae |
| Tribe: | †Bothremydini |
| Subtribe: | †Bothremydina |
| Genus: | †Rosasia Carrington da Costa, 1940 |
| Species: | †R. sotoui
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| †Rosasia sotoui Carrington da Costa, 1940
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Rosasia is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Argilas de Aveiro Formation of Portugal.[1] The genus consists of a single species, R. soutoi,[1] named after Alberto Souto.[2]
- ^ a b "North Gondwana Pleurodiran Turtles". Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles. Springer Earth System Sciences. 2014. pp. 95–131. ISBN 978-3-319-00518-8.
- ^ "De Rerum Natura" (in Portuguese). Retrieved January 15, 2021.
Entre os fósseis daqui retirados destaca-se a carapaça de uma tartaruga, até então desconhecida, descrita em 1940 pelo Prof. Carrington da Costa, da Universidade do Porto, como espécie nova para a ciência, a que deu o nome de Rosacea [sic.] soutoi, em homenagem ao seu achador, Alberto Souto, um aveirense curioso das coisas da natureza, um exemplo que não tem encontrado seguidores. (Among the fossils taken from here, the carapace of a tortoise, previously unknown, described in 1940 by Prof. Carrington da Costa, from the University of Porto, as a new species for science, which he named Rosasia soutoi, in honor of its finder, Alberto Souto, an Aveirense curious about the things of nature, an example that has not found followers.)