Cambaremys, França & Langer, 2005

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 : 58

Cambaremys França and Langer, 2005

TYPE SPECIES: Cambaremys langertoni França and Langer, 2005.

DISTRIBUTION: Late Cretaceous, Brazil.

DIAGNOSIS: A medium-size Pelomedusoides pleurodire (230 mm straight carapace length) known only from the shell and associated postcranial elements differing from other South American Cretaceous and Early Tertiary Pelomedusoides in having vertebral scales 2–4 relatively wide and hexagonal, a relatively long narrow nuchal bone (also long and narrow in Peirópolis A), first neural four sided, axillary buttress not extending onto second costal but reaching second peripheral anteriorly, suture for axillary buttress broad and curving with parallel sides, bridge peripherals unguttered, iliac attachment area on seventh costal with concave anterior margin that crosses from the eighth onto the seventh costal both medially and laterally; internal gutter of posterior peripherals and pygal absent.