Kurmademys

Kurmademys is an extinct genus of side-necked turtle which existed in India during the late Cretaceous period.

[1] It was first named in 2001, by Eugene S. Gaffney, Sankar Chatterjee, and Dhiraj K. Rudra, and contains the species Kurmademys kallamedensis.

[1] The species name is derived from the Kallamedu Formation of southern India, where the type specimen of the genus was discovered.

[1] It was assigned to the family Bothremydidae.

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