Palaeoemys kehreri (Staesche, 1928)

Taxonomy

Freshwater Turtle

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cordata
Class: Reptilia Laurenti 1768
Order: Testudines Batsch 1788
Family: Incertae sedis
Genus: Palaeoemys
Species: Palaeoemys kehreri
Author Citation Staesche, 1928

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Cenozoic
Period: Paleogene
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Eocene
International Age: Lutetian

Stratigraphy

Messel Formation

Provenance

Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 06/01/1976
Acquired by: Field Collection

Location

Grube Messel
Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg
Hessia
Germany

• eocene
• euroemys
• franciella messeliana
• lutetian
• messel
• ocadia
• palaeoemys

Comments

Alternative combination: Ocadia kehreri or Palaeoemis kehreri.
Information from Prof. Walter Joyce (Université de Fribourg): "The literature contradicts itself how many species of geoemyd turtles there are in Messel and I had no time to make myself a more exact picture. Hervet (2004) writes that there are three species in three genera, Claude & Tong (2004) that it is only one species, and that the different species of Hervet (2004) are only growth stages. If you follow Claude & Tong (2004), your fossil is Palaeoemys kehreri. If you follow Hervet (2004), this animal is called Franciella messeliana."

Identified by Prof. W. Joyce, Fribourg.
References:
Stäsche, K. (1928) Sumpfschildkröten aus hessischen Tertiärablagerungen. Abhandlungen der Hessischen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt, 8 (4): 1-72.
Claude, J. & Tong H. (2004) EARLY EOCENE TESTUDINOID TURTLES FROM SAINT-PAPOUL, FRANCE, WITH COMMENTS ON THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF MODERN TESTUDINOIDEA. ORYCTOS, Vol. 5 : 3 - 45.
Hervet, S. (2004) Systématique du groupe "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) du Tertiaire d'Europe occidentale: principaux résultats [Systematic of the "Palaeochelys sensu lato – Mauremys" group (Chelonii, Testudinoidea) from the Tertiary of Western Europe: principal results. Annales de Paléontologie 90(1):13-78.