Elseya uberima
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Elseya uberrima Temporal range: Eocene |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Subfamily: | Chelodininae |
| Genus: | Elseya |
| Subgenus: | Pelocomastes |
| Species: | 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.
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. All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000.
To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
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) 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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