Taxonavigation

Familia: Chelidae
Subfamilia: Chelodininae
Genus: Elseya
Subgenus: Pelocomastes
Species: † Elseya uberrima

Name

• Elseya uberima De Vis, 1897
  • Type locality: Locality. Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia.
  • Horizon: Pliocene.
  • Holotype: none set (de Vis, 1897). Lectotype: QMF9040 by subsequent designation (Gaffney, 1981)

Synonymy

• Chelymys uberima de Vis 1897: 3.
  • Chelymys antiqua de Vis 1897: 4.
  • Chelymys arata de Vis 1897: 5.
  • Pelecomastes ampla de Vis 1897: 6–7.
  • Elseya uberrima Thomson 2000
  • Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima Thomson et al. 2015

Distribution

Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.

References

• De Vis, C.W. 1897. The extinct freshwater turtles of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum. 3:3-7.

• Thomson, S. 2000. A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897. Memoires of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 593–598. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 

• Thomson, S., Amepou, Y., Anamiato, J. & Georges, A. 2015. A new species and subgenus of Elseya (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from New Guinea. Zootaxa 4006(1): 59–82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.1.3 . Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• en: Snapping Turtle (uberima means utmost good faith in Latin, how that can be translated to a common name is up for interpretation).