Notoemys zapatocaensis, RUEDA & GAFFNEY, 2005

RUEDA, EDWIN ALBERTO CADENA & GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., 2005, Notoemys zapatocaensis, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pleurodira: Platychelyidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia, American Museum Novitates 3470 (1), pp. 1-20 : 4

Notoemys zapatocaensis , new species

TYPE SPECIMEN: IPN 15 ­ EAC 140120031 , a carapace and posterior part of plastron.

TYPE LOCALITY: El Caucho farm (73 ° 15 ̍ W–6 ° 49 ̍ N), northeast of Ciudad de Zapatoca , Department of Santander, Colombia .

HORIZON: Upper part of Rosablanca Fm ( Guzman, 1985), late Valanginian based on ammonoid Synoceras verrucosum (F. Etayo, personal commun.).

DIAGNOSIS: A species of Notoemys (see table 1) that differs from N. laticentralis and N. oxfordiensis in having a first costal not contacting peripheral 3, peripheral 3 very small, and marginal scale 3 small and restricted entirely to peripheral 2, marginal 4 reaching peripheral 2; differs from N. laticentralis in having a slightly serrated rather than smooth posterior carapace edge, a notched pygal, narrower vertebral scales, and slight rather than no doming along posterior edge of pleural and vertebral scale areas.