Elseya uberrima
| Elseya uberrima Temporal range: Eocene
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E. uberima
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| Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897)
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Elseya uberrima is an Eocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.
Taxonomy
During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.[1] All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000.[1]
To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
- Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897[2])
This synonymy has made the genus name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015)[3] resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thomson SA. 2000. A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 45 (2): 593-598. (Brisbane).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 De Vis CW. 1897. The extinct freshwater turtles of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 3: 3-7.
- ↑ Thomson, S., Amepou, Y., Anamiato, J. & Georges, A. 2015. A new species and subgenus of Elseya (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from New Guinea. Zootaxa 4006(1):59-82. Preview (PDF)
