Caninemys, Meylan & Gaffney & De Almeida Campos, 2009
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1206/608.1 |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5453066 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D787D2-FFD1-8D7E-0988-C226D81F9B50 |
treatment provided by |
Carolina |
scientific name |
Caninemys |
status |
gen. nov. |
Caninemys , new genus
TYPE SPECIES: Caninemys tridentata , new species .
DISTRIBUTION: Late Tertiary, Miocene, of Acre, Brazil.
ETYMOLOGY: Named for the bulldog appearance of the skull and the large maxillary processes in the position of mammalian canines.
DIAGNOSIS: A podocnemidid pleurodire with a well-developed processus trochlearis pterygoidei, quadrate-basioccipital contact, and a large cavum pterygoidei; unique among podocnemidids (and all other turtles) in having greatly inflated maxillae, each with a ventral, toothlike process, which, together with a single process formed on the midline of the premaxillae, form a tridentate condition in the upper triturating surfaces, unique among pleurodires. The entire animal was probably smaller than Stupendemys geographicus Wood, 1976 .
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