Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Alternative combination: Stupendemys geographicus
Full reference: R. C. Wood. 1976. Stupendemys geographicus, the world's largest turtle. Breviora 436:1-31
Belongs to Stupendemys according to E. - A. Cadena et al. 2021
See also de la Fuente et al. 2014, Riff et al. 2010, Sanchez-Villagra and Scheyer 2010 and Wood 1976
Sister taxon: Stupendemys souzai
Type specimen: MCNC 244, a partial skeleton (medial portion of the carapace with associated left femur, fragments of the scapulocoracoid and a cervical vertebra). Its type locality is West of Quebrado Tio Gregorio, which is in a Huayquerian fluvial-deltaic siliciclastic in the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.
Distribution:
• Huayquerian of Venezuela (3 collections)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Brazil (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), Colombia (2), Venezuela (1)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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