Iberoccitanemys
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Complete shell (HUE-4913) of I. convenarum from the Villalba de la Sierra Formation
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Pleurodira
Family: †Bothremydidae
Genus: †Iberoccitanemys
Perez-Garcia, Ortega, & Murelaga, 2012
Species
  • †Iberoccitanemys convenarum Perez-Garcia, Ortega, & Murelaga, 2012
  • †Iberoccitanemys atlanticum Perez-Garcia, Ortega, & Murelaga, 2021

Iberoccitanemys (meaning "Iberoccitanian turtle") is an extinct genus of turtle from the Bothremydidae[1] that is known from the Marnes d'Auzas Formation in France, and also the Sobrepena Formation and Villalba de la Sierra Formation in Spain.

Discovery and naming

Two species are known: I. convenarum (the type) and I. atlanticum, which were both referred to other genera[2][3] before being moved to Iberoccitanemys; the genus was named by Perez-Garcia, Ortega & Murelaga (2012).[1]

The type species, I. convenarum, was initially placed within Elochelys as E. convenarum by Laurent, Tong & Claude (2002).[2] It was moved to Iberoccitanemys when the genus was named in 2012[1] and is based on the holotype, MDEt Cas2-259, a nearly complete shell from the Marnes d'Auzas Formation in France.

The second species, I. atlanticum, was initially placed within Polysternon as P. atlanticum by de Lapparent de Broin & Murelaga (1996).[3] P. atlanticum was redescribed as a species of Iberoccitanemys by Perez-Garcia, Ortega & Murelaga (2021).[4] The holotype is MCNA 6316, from the Sobrepena Formation in Spain.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pérez-García, Adán; Ortega, Francisco; Murelaga, Xabier (2012). "A new genus of Bothremydidae (Chelonii, Pleurodira) in the Cretaceous of Southwestern Europe". Geobios. 45 (2): 219–229. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2011.03.001. ISSN 0016-6995.
  2. 1 2 Y. Laurent, H. Tong, and J. Claude. (2002). New side-necked turtle (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Maastrichtian of the Petites-Pyrenees (Haute-Garonne, France). Cretaceous Research 23:465-471
  3. 1 2 de Lapparent de Broin, F. & Murelaga, X. (1996). Une nouvelle faune de chéloniens dans le crétacé supérieur européen. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences 323: 729-735
  4. ↑ PÉREZ-GARCÍA, Adán; ORTEGA, Francisco; MURELAGA, Xabier (2021). "Iberoccitanemys atlanticum (Lapparent de Broin & Murelaga, 1996) n. comb.: new data on the diversity and paleobiogeographic distributions of the Campanian-Maastrichtian bothremydid turtles of Europe". Comptes Rendus Palevol (32). doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a32. ISSN 1777-571X.


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