Shweboemys pilgrimi Swinton, 1939

GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN & MEYLAN, PETER A., 2002, Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean, American Museum Novitates 3359, pp. 1-28 : 7-8

Shweboemys pilgrimi Swinton, 1939 (non Schweboemys de Broin 1988).

DISTRIBUTION: Burma, Pliocene (possibly Pleistocene).

AVAILABLE MATERIAL: Geological Survey of India No. 17255 (holotype figures in

Swinton, 1939: figs. 1 , 2 ; and Wood, 1970: plate 1), BMNH R.8432 (figured in Wood, 1970: figs. 1 , 2 , 3 , and plates IIA, IIIA, IVA).

LITERATURE: In addition to Swinton (1939), Wood (1970) provided description and figures.

Figures

Fig. 1. Urumaco Formation, late Miocene, near Urumaco, Venezuela. Views of Turtle Hollow, the quarry that yielded the skulls of Bairdemys described here. A, General view of quarry area looking south; B, working the quarry face front to back: Dan Fisher, Bryan Patterson, Bob Repenning, Arnie Lewis; C, Arnie Lewis excavating shells of Bairdemys venezuelensis; D, Dan Fisher next to Bairdemys venezuelensis shells. The small white plaster jacket above the shells is one of the Bairdemys skulls. Photos taken by Roger Wood, Museum of Comparative Zoology expedition, Harvard University, 1972.

Fig. 2. Bairdemys venezuelensis (Wood and Díaz de Gamero), new genus, skull reconstruction based primarily on MCZ 9417 with additions from MCZ 9418, MCNC­Pal­0002, and MCNC­Pal­ 0001. A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, lateral.

Fig. 3. Bairdemys hartsteini, new genus and species, skull reconstruction based entirely on AMNH 27222. A, dorsal; B, ventral; C, lateral; D, occipital.