Latisternon microsulcae Auffenberg, 1981

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 : 68

Latisternon microsulcae Auffenberg, 1981

TYPE SPECIMEN: Kenya National Museum F3532, a left epiplastron (figured Auffenberg, 1981: fig. 2).

TYPE LOCALITY: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (see Auffenberg, 1981: 512 for more information).

HORIZON: Pleistocene, Olduvai Group (see Auffenberg, 1981: 512 and Lapparent de Broin, 2000a: 68 for more discussion).

DIAGNOSIS: See Auffenberg (1981: 511, 512) for characters differentiating this epiplastron from some other epiplastra. The association of a nuchal bone ( Kenya National Museum F4729; figured Auffenberg, 1981; fig. 3) is not certain.

DISCUSSION: This taxon is recognized by Lapparent de Broin (2000a: 68) as ‘‘Pelomedusoides indet. incertae familiae,?Pelomedusidae’’ without comment. The type is inadequate for a reasonable diagnosis.