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Emydura
Taxonomy
Emydura was named by Bonaparte (1836). It is extant.
It was assigned to Chelyidae by Lydekker (1889); to Chelinae by Burke et al. (1983); to Chelodininae by van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Chelidae by Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Lapparent de Broin and Molnar (2001), Gaffney et al. (2006), Louys and Price (2015).
It was assigned to Chelyidae by Lydekker (1889); to Chelinae by Burke et al. (1983); to Chelodininae by van Dijk et al. (2014); and to Chelidae by Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Lapparent de Broin and Molnar (2001), Gaffney et al. (2006), Louys and Price (2015).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1836 | Emydura Bonaparte |
| 1889 | Emydura Lydekker pp. 168-169 |
| 1983 | Emydura Burke et al. |
| 1988 | Emydura Carroll |
| 1996 | Emydura Frank and Ramus |
| 2001 | Emydura Lapparent de Broin and Molnar |
| 2006 | Emydura Gaffney et al. p. 33 |
| 2014 | Emydura van Dijk et al. |
| 2015 | Emydura Louys and Price p. 554 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Emydura Bonaparte 1836
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Emydura australis Gray 1841 [Australian bighead turtle]
Emydura krefftii Gray 1871 [Krefft's river turtle]
Emydura macquarii Gray 1831 [Murray River turtle]
Emydura signata Ahl 1932 [Brisbane shortneck turtle]
Emydura subglobosa Krefft 1876 [Redbelly shortneck turtle]
Emydura tanybaraga Cann 1997 [Northern yellow-faced turtle]
Emydura victoriae Gray 1842 [Victoria shortneck turtle]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Ernst and Barbour 1989, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Holocene or 83.50000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma
Collections (13 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian | Argentina (Río Negro) | Chelidae indet. B (45087) | |
| Paleocene - Eocene | Australia (Queensland) | E. sp. (176510) | |
| Paleocene - Oligocene | Australia (Queensland) | E. sp. (176507) | |
| Oligocene - Miocene | Australia (Tasmania) | E. macquari (198226) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene | Australia (South Australia) | E. sp. (51412 137260 216700) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | Australia (South Australia) | E. sp. (13313) | |
| Middle Miocene | Australia (Victoria) | E. sp. (229277) | |
| Pliocene | Australia (New South Wales) | Testudines indet. (182916) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | E. macquarii (28298) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Testudines indet. (143748) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Queensland) | E. kreffti (21688) |