Latentemys plowdeni, Gaffney & Meylan & Wood & Simons & De Almeida Campos, 2011

Gaffney, Eugene S., Meylan, Peter A., Wood, Roger C., Simons, Elwyn & De Almeida Campos, Diogenes, 2011, Evolution Of The Side-Necked Turtles: The Family Podocnemididae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (350), pp. 1-237 : 51

Latentemys plowdeni , new species

TYPE SPECIMEN: BMNH R.11998, a nearly complete skull (figs. 58–61). Collected by W. Plowden.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HORIZON: Probably Egypt, probably Tertiary, possibly Miocene. The specimen was donated to the BMNH by W. Plowden, who obtained it in Egypt during military service. The dark brown, loose matrix type of preservation suggests the Moghara Fm. rather than Eocene-Oligocene sediments.

DIAGNOSIS: Genus is monotypic.

ETYMOLOGY: In recognition of the presumed collector, W. Plowden.

DISCUSSION: Latentemys is the sister taxon to Bairdemys in our resolution of the characters. But the position of both Latentemys and Cordichelys are relatively poorly supported in this cladogram (s. 98, 99).