Upper and lower estimates of Drazinderetes tethyensis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
Testudines
Suborder:
Cryptodira
Family:
Trionychidae
Subfamily:
Trionychinae
Genus:
†Drazinderetes Head et al., 1999[1]
Type species
Drazinderetes tethyensis
Head et al., 1999
Drazinderetes is a large bodied genus of soft shell turtle from the Middle Eocene Drazinda Formation of Pakistan. Its presence in the shallow marine deposits of the Drazinda Formation suggests that Drazinderetes may have been a partially or fully marine animal. Indetermined trionychine remains from the same formation may suggest that Drazinderetes could have been among the largest known turtles, with one entoplastron indicating a potential length of 1.5 to 2.1 meters. Drazinderetes currently consists of only a single species: Drazinderetes tethyensis.[2]
^"Genus - accepted - Drazinderetes Head, Raza & Gingerich, 1999". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^Head, J.J.; Raza, S.M.; Gingerich, P.D. (1999). "DRAZINDERETES TETHYENSIS, A NEW LARGE TRIONYCHID (REPTILIA: TESTUDINES) FROM THE MARINE EOCENE DRAZINDA FORMATION OF THE SULAIMAN RANGE, PUNJAB (PAKISTAN)". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan. 30 (7): 199–214.
potential length of 1.5 to 2.1 meters. Drazinderetes currently consists of only a single species: Drazinderetes tethyensis. The first surveys of the Drazinda...
turtles, tied with the Quaternary Peltocephalus maturin and Eocene Drazinderetes in carapace length and only outsized by the Cretaceous protostegids...
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