Nigeremys
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Nigeremys Temporal range:
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Nigeremys fossil skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Pleurodira |
Family: | †Bothremydidae |
Genus: | †Nigeremys Broin, 1977 |
Species: | †N. gigantea
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Binomial name | |
†Nigeremys gigantea Broin, 1977
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Nigeremys ("Niger turtle") is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle from Niger, Mali and Syria.[1] The genus consists exclusively of the combinatio nova of the type species N. gigantea.[2]
Discovery
Nigeremys was described in 1977.[1]
References
- ^ a b F. Broin. 1977. Contribution a l'etude des Cheloniens. Cheloniens continentaux due Cretace et du Tertiare de France. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Nouvelle Serie, Serie C, Sciences de la terre 38:1-366
- ^ Fossilworks: Phosphatochelys fossilworks.org Retrieved 2021-01-05
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