Colossoemys
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Colossoemys Temporal range: Pleistocene
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Genus: | Colossoemys Rodrigues, 1892
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Colossoemys is the nomen dubium of an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian. Based on fossils found in the Solimões Formation, the finds were assigned to Emys macrococcygeanus, a turtle that would have inhabited the Amazon Basin South America during the Pleistocene epoch.[1] The genus was originally named on the basis of two large procoelous vertebrae, a pubis, and a plastral fragment (likely to be from a turtle rather than a crocodilian).[2] The paucity of material associated with the genus has led Colossoemys to be considered a nomen dubium.[1]
References
Bibliography
- Hoorn, Carina, and Frank Wesselingh. 2011. Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past, 1–464. John Wiley & Sons. Accessed 2017-08-13.