Bairdemys

Bairdemys
Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Late Miocene ~24–7.3 Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: Podocnemididae
Subtribe: Stereogenyina
Genus: Bairdemys
Gaffney & Wood 2002[1]
Type species
Bairdemys hartsteini
Gaffney & Wood 2002
Species
  • Bairdemys hartsteini Gaffney & Wood 2002[2]
  • Bairdemys healeyorum Weems & Knight 2013[3]
  • Bairdemys sanchezi Gaffney et al. 2008[4]
  • Bairdemys thalassica Ferreira et al. 2015[5]
  • Bairdemys venezuelensis Wood & Díaz 1971[6]
  • Bairdemys winklerae Gaffney et al. 2008[7]

Bairdemys is an extinct genus of side-necked turtles in the family Podocnemididae. The genus existed from the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene and its fossils have been found in South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Panama and Venezuela. The genus was described in 2002 by Gaffney & Wood and the type species is B. hartsteini.

Description

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The first species in the genus described was B. venezuelensis as Podocnemis venezuelensis by Wood and Díaz de Gamero in 1971.[8]

Species

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  • B. hartsteini Gaffney & Wood 2002[2]
  • B. healeyorum Weems & Knight 2013[3]
  • B. sanchezi Gaffney et al. 2008[4]
  • B. thalassica Ferreira et al. 2015[5]
  • B. venezuelensis Wood & Díaz 1971[6]
  • B. winklerae Gaffney et al. 2008[7]

Phylogeny

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Bairdemys was placed phylogenetically by Ferreira et al. in 2015.[9]

Distribution

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Fossils of Bairdemys have been found in:[1]

Late Oligocene
Early-Mid Miocene
Late Miocene

See also

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References

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Bibliography

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Further reading

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  • Wood, R.C.; Díaz, M.L. (1971), "Podocnemis venezuelensis, a new fossil pelomedusid (Testudines, Pleurodira) from the Pliocene of Venezuela and a review of the history of Podocnemis in South America", Breviora, 376: 1–23