Shweboemys pilgrimi Swinton, 1939

Gaffney, Eugene S., Meylan, Peter A., Wood, Roger C., Simons, Elwyn & De Almeida Campos, Diogenes, 2011, Evolution Of The Side-Necked Turtles: The Family Podocnemididae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (350), pp. 1-237 : 56

Shweboemys pilgrimi Swinton, 1939

TYPE SPECIMEN: Geological Survey of India number 17255, a partial skull consisting of the anterior portion with palate, lacking otic chambers and posterior and lateral areas of skull roof (not seen by present authors). Figured in Swinton (1939: figs. 1, 2) and Wood (1970: pl. 1).

TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘One mile NNE of Mauktet, Shwebo District, Burma’’ ( Wood, 1970: 9).

TYPE HORIZON: Irrawaddy Beds, Pliocene or Pleistocene, fide discussion in Wood (1970), but a Miocene age cannot now be excluded.

DIAGNOSIS: Genus is monotypic.

REFERRED SPECIMEN: BMNH R.8432, a partial skull (figs. 71–74) consisting of the anterior portion with palate, lacking right otic chamber, some of left otic chamber, and lateral and posterior skull roof. Figured and described in Wood (1970: pls. I, II, III; 2A, 3A, 4A). Only data is ‘‘Burma’’ ( Wood, 1970).

PREVIOUS WORK: Swinton (1939), Wood (1970).