Reptilia - Testudines - Platychelyidae
Alternative combination: Caribemys oxfordiensis
Full reference: M. S. de la Fuente and M. Iturralde-Vinent. 2001. A new pleurodiran turtle from the Jagua Formation (Oxfordian) of western Cuba. Journal of Paleontology 75(4):860-869
Belongs to Notoemys according to E. Cadena and W. G. Joyce 2015
See also Cadena et al. 2013, Cadena Rueda and Gaffney 2005, Danilov and Parham 2008, de la Fuente and Iturralde-Vinent 2001, Gaffney et al. 2006, Perea et al. 2014 and Puntener et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Notoemys laticentralis, Notoemys tlaxiacoensis, Notoemys zapatocaensis
Type specimen: MNHNCu-P 3209, a shell. Its type locality is Vinales Valley, which is in an Oxfordian/Oxfordian platform/shelf-margin reef shale/lime mudstone in the Jagua Formation of Cuba.
Distribution: found only at Vinales Valley
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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