Elseya uberrima
Extinct species of turtle
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Elseya uberrima is a Pliocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.
| Elseya uberrima Temporal range: Pliocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Pleurodira |
| Family: | Chelidae |
| Genus: | Elseya |
| Subgenus: | Pelocomastes |
| Species: | E. uberrima |
| Binomial name | |
| Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897) | |
Taxonomy
During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.[1] All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000.[1]
To avoid confusion the synonymy for the species is as follows:
- Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897[2])
This synonymy has made the genus name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya and in their recent revision of that genus Thomson et al. (2015)[3] resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.
