Carteremys
Extinct genus of turtle
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Carteremys is an extinct genus of pelomedusid pleurodiran turtle from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)-Eocene, of India[1] based on the type species C. leithi, which was named in 1953 by E. Williams[2] and was originally placed in the genera Hydraspis by H. J. Carter in 1852 and Testudo, also by H. J. Carter, in 1871.[3] A second species, C. pisdurensis, was named in 1977 by Sohan Lal Jain,[4] but it was transferred to the separate genus Jainemys in 2020 by Joyce and Bandyopadhyay.[5]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Pelomedusidae |
| Genus: | †Carteremys Williams, 1953 |
| Species: | †C. leithi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carteremys leithi Williams, 1953 | |
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