''Selenemys'' is an

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genus of pleurosternid turtle from the Late Jurassic of Central West of Portugal. It is known from several specimens recovered from the

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, dating to the upper Kimmeridgian age. It was one of the earliest European pleurosternids, more closely related to the later Cretaceous pleurosternids of Europe than the contemporary pleurosternids of

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. This genus was named by Adán Pérez-García and Francisco Ortega in

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, and the type species is ''Selenemys lusitanica''. The holotype is housed at the Laboratory of Paleontology and Paleoecology of th
ALT-Society of Natural History
(Torres Vedras, Portugal).

References

Pleurosternidae Prehistoric turtle genera Kimmeridgian genera Late Jurassic turtles Late Jurassic reptiles of Europe Jurassic Portugal Fossils of Portugal Fossil taxa described in 2011 {{paleo-turtle-stub