Shweboemys
Name:
Shweboemys.
Phonetic: Shwee-bo-miss.
Named By: Swinton - 1939.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Anapsida,
Testudines, Pleurodira, Pelomedusoidea, Podocnemididae.
Species: S. pisdurensis.
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: India - Kunnam Formation,
Lameta Formation.
Time period: Turonian to Maastrichtian of the
Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Shweboemys is a genus of turtle that is known to have lived in Asia during the late Cretaceous. A former species of Shweboemys, S. gaffneyi, has now been renamed as a distinct genus called Brontochelys.
Further reading
- A new fossil fresh-water tortoise from Burma. - Records of the
Geological Survey of India 74(4):548-551. - W. E. Swinton - 1939.
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