Turkanemys pattersoni Wood, 2003

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 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/350.1
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scientific name	Turkanemys pattersoni Wood, 2003
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SYNONYMY: None.

TYPE SPECIMEN: KNM-LT 569, a shell, skull, and associated axial and partial appendicular skeleton (see Wood, 2003: 117, 118) for more detailed description of type.

TYPE LOCALITY: Lothagam, Kenya ( Wood, 2003).

HORIZON: Lower member of the late Miocene Nawata Formation ( Wood, 2003; see also other articles in same volume).

REFERRED MATERIAL: Specimens listed in Wood (2003). See also discussion below under Erymnochelys .

PREVIOUS WORK: See Wood (2003) for figures and description of skull and shell.