Bairdemys

Bairdemys; Temporal range: Late Oligocene-Late Miocene ~24–7.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Podocnemididae
Subtribe:	†
Genus:	†Bairdemys; Gaffney & Wood 2002
Type species
	†Bairdemys hartsteini; Gaffney & Wood 2002
Species
	†Bairdemys hartsteini Gaffney & Wood 2002; †Bairdemys healeyorum Weems & Knight 2013; †Bairdemys sanchezi Gaffney et al. 2008; †Bairdemys thalassica Ferreira et al. 2015; †Bairdemys venezuelensis Wood & Díaz 1971; †Bairdemys winklerae Gaffney et al. 2008;

Bairdemys is an extinct genus of side-necked turtles in the family Podocnemididae. The genus existed from the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene and its fossils have been found in South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Panama and Venezuela. The genus was described in 2002 by Gaffney & Wood and the type species is B. hartsteini.

Description[]

The first species in the genus described was B. venezuelensis as Podocnemis venezuelensis by Wood and Díaz de Gamero in 1971.^[8]

Species[]

†B. hartsteini Gaffney & Wood 2002^[2]
†B. healeyorum Weems & Knight 2013^[3]
†B. sanchezi Gaffney et al. 2008^[4]
†B. thalassica Ferreira et al. 2015^[5]
†B. venezuelensis Wood & Díaz 1971^[6]
†B. winklerae Gaffney et al. 2008^[7]

Phylogeny[]

Bairdemys was placed phylogenetically by Ferreira et al. in 2015.^[9]

Distribution[]

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Bairdemys fossil locations

Urumaco Formation

Alajuela Formation

& Castillo Formations

Chandler Bridge Formation

Fossils of Bairdemys have been found in:^[1]

Late Oligocene

Chandler Bridge Formation, Arikareean, South Carolina

Early-Mid Miocene

, Hemingfordian, Puerto Rico
, and Castillo Formations, Laventan, Venezuela

Late Miocene

Alajuela Formation, earliest Clarendonian, Panama
Urumaco Formation, Chasicoan, Venezuela

References[]

^ ^a ^b Bairdemys at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Bairdemys hartsteini at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Bairdemys healeyorum at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Bairdemys sanchezi at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Bairdemys thalassica at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Bairdemys venezuelensis at Fossilworks.org
^ ^a ^b Bairdemys winklerae at Fossilworks.org
^ Gaffney et al., 2008
^ Ferreira et al., 2015, p.10

Bibliography[]

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Ferreira, Gabriel S.; Ascanio D. Rincón; Andrés Solórzano, and Max C. Langer. 2015. The last marine pelomedusoids (Testudines: Pleurodira): a new species of Bairdemys and the paleoecology of Stereogenyina. PeerJ 3. 1–29. Accessed 2019-02-20.
Gaffney, E.S.; T.M. Scheyer; K.G. Johnson; J. Bocquetin, and O.A. Aguilera. 2008. Two new species of the side necked turtle genus, Bairdemys (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae), from the Miocene of Venezuela. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 82. 209–229. Accessed 2019-02-20.
Gaffney, Eugene S., and Roger C. Wood. 2008. Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359. 1–28. Accessed 2019-02-20.
Lundberg, J.G., and O.A. Aguilera. 2003. The late Miocene Phractocephalus catfish (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from Urumaco, Venezuela: additional specimens and reinterpretation as a distinct species. Neotropical Ichthyology 1. 97–109. Accessed 2019-02-20.
MacFadden, Bruce J.; Douglas S. Jones; Nathan A. Jud; Jorge W. Moreno Bernal; Gary S. Morgan; Roger W. Portell; Victor J. Pérez; Sean M. Moran, and Aaron R. Wood. 2017. Integrated Chronology, Flora and Faunas, and Paleoecology of the Alajuela Formation, Late Miocene of Panama. PLoS ONE 12. 1–27. Accessed 2019-02-20.
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Scheyer, T.M., and M. Delfino. 2016. The late Miocene caimanine fauna (Crocodylia: Alligatoroidea) of the Urumaco Formation, Venezuela. Palaeontologia Electronica 19. 1–57. Accessed 2019-02-20.
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