Carteremys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | Pelomedusidae |
Genus: | †
Carteremys Williams, 1953 |
Species: | †C. leithi
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Binomial name | |
†Carteremys leithi Williams, 1953
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Carteremys is an extinct genus of pelomedusid pleurodiran turtle from the Maastrichtian ( Late Cretaceous)- Eocene, of India [1] based on the type species C. leithi, which was named in 1953 by E. Williams [2] and was originally placed in the genera Hydraspis by H. J. Carter in 1852 and Testudo, also by H. J. Carter, in 1871. [3] A second species, C. pisdurensis, was named in 1977 by Sohan Lal Jain, [4] but it was transferred to the separate genus Jainemys in 2020 by Joyce and Bandyopadhyay. [5]