Pricemys, Gaffney & Meylan & Wood & Simons & De Almeida Campos, 2011
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1206/350.1 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C95DDC2B-FF9F-5E6A-FF33-A5E49A0DD7BA |
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Felipe |
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scientific name |
Pricemys |
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gen. nov. |
Pricemys , new genus
TYPE SPECIES: Pricemys caiera , new genus and species.
INCLUDED SPECIES: Pricemys caiera , new genus and species.
DISTRIBUTION: Late Cretaceous, Brazil.
ETYMOLOGY: For Llewellyn I. Price, influential Brazilian paleontologist and lead- er of the team that collected the type specimen and the other Caiera Quarry, Peirópolis , turtles.
DIAGNOSIS: A podocnemidid known only from the skull; skull relatively high and narrow in contrast to Bauruemys ; interorbital groove as found in Podocnemis absent; temporal emargination slight in contrast to Bauruemys but deeper than in Peltocephalus ;
postorbital large in contrast to Podocnemis ; parietal-quadratojugal contact long; cheek emargination reaches above level of orbit; medial expansion of triturating surface, median maxillary ridge, absent; wide concavity on the midline, formed by the premaxillae and anterior maxilla, present; accessory ridge in triturating surface absent; vomer present; fossa precolumellaris shallow as in Podocnemis expansa ; foramen jugulare posterius closed; interparietal scale parallel sided in contrast to equilateral triangle in Peiropemys ; cavum pterygoidei with small anterior opening for foramen cavernosum; horizontal occipital shelf present as in Podocnemis .
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