Brontochelys
Name:
Brontochelys
(Thunder shell).
Phonetic: Bron-toe-chel-iss.
Named By: Eugene S. Gaffney, Peter A. Meylan,
Roger C. Wood, Elwyn Simons & Diógenes de Almeida
Campos - 2011.
Synonyms: Shweboemys gaffneyi.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Anapsida,
Testudines, Pleurodira, Pelomedusoidea, Podocnemididae.
Species: B. gaffneyi (type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Pakistan.
Time period: Early Miocene.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Originally named as a species of Shweboemys, Brontochelys is a little known genus of side-necked turtle that lived in Pakistan during the early Miocene. The type species is named in honour of Eugene Gaffney for his work on turtles.
Further reading
- A review of the fossil Pelomedusidae (Testudines, Pleurodira)
of Asia. Breviora 357:1–24. - R. C. Wood - 1970.
- Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae.
- Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 350:
1–237. - Eugene S. Gaffney, Peter A. Meylan, Roger C.
Wood, Elwyn Simons & Diógenes de Almeida Campos -
2011.
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