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Puentemys mushaisaensis
Taxonomy
Puentemys mushaisaensis was named by Cadena et al. (2012). Its type specimen is UF/IGM 50, a partial shell (complete carapace and hyoplastron), and it is a 3D body fossil.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2012 | Puentemys mushaisaensis Cadena et al. p. 688 figs. 2-5 |
| 2024 | Puentemys mushaisaensis Cadena et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Puentemys mushaisaensis Cadena et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. A. Cadena et al. 2012 | Differs from all other bothremydids in having pectoral scales shorter than humeral, abdominal, and femoral scales at midline of the plastron; small and very shallow medial notch at the anterior margin of the nuchal; vertebral 1 much wider than the others; axillary buttress scar oriented greater than 60u with respect to the posterior margin of costal 1; and short, wide, |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Uetz 2005, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Thanetian to the top of the Late/Upper Paleocene or 59.24000 to 56.00000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Paleocene - Late/Upper Paleocene | Colombia (Guajira) | Puentemys mushaisaensis (106271 132012 132013 132014) | |
| Thanetian | Colombia (Socha) | Puentemys mushaisaensis (234570) |