Podocnemis harrisi Pacheco 1913 (river turtle)

Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae

Full reference: J. A. d. Pacheco. 1913. Notas sobre a geologia do valle do rio Grande a partir da fóz do rio Pardo até a sua confluencia com o rio Paranahyba [Notes on the geology of the valley of the Rio Grande from the mouth of the Rio Pardo to its confluence with the Rio Paranahyba]. Exploraçao do Rio Grande e de Seus Affluentes 33-38

Belongs to Podocnemis according to J. A. d. Pacheco 1913

See also Campos and de Broin 1981, Gaffney et al. 2011, Oliveira and Romano 2007, Romano and Azevedo 2007 and Romano et al. 2013

Sister taxa: Podocnemis argentinensis, Podocnemis bassleri, Podocnemis bramlyi, Podocnemis brasiliensis, Podocnemis erythrocephala, Podocnemis expansa, Podocnemis freibergi, Podocnemis geologorum, Podocnemis lewyana, Podocnemis medemi, Podocnemis negrii, Podocnemis pritchardi, Podocnemis sextuberculata, Podocnemis stromeri, Podocnemis tatacoensis, Podocnemis unifilis, Podocnemis vogli

Type specimen: 3 carapace fragments, a dermal scale. Its type locality is Collina Station, Barretos, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian terrestrial sandstone/coal in the Adamantina Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: aquatic herbivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Collina Station, Barretos

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.