''Appalachemys'' is an extinct genus of macrobaenid turtle that lived during the Late Cretaceous period.Gentry, A., Kierman, C. R., & Parham, J. F. (2023). A large non-marine turtle from the upper cretaceous of Alabama and a review of north American “macrobaenids”. The Anatomical Record, 306, 1411–1430. It is a

monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...

known from a single

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

, ''A. ebersolei'', which was named after Jun Ebersole.

History and Description

Appalachemys is known from specimen ALMNH PV985.24 at the

Alabama Museum of Natural History Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

. The type locality is unknown. ''Appalachemys'' is over 80 cm long.

Distribution and habitat

''Appalachemys'' lived in Alabama in the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 143.1 to 66 mya (unit), million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era (geology), Era, as well as the longest. At around 77.1 million years, it is the ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q131106504 Macrobaenidae Prehistoric turtle genera Fossil taxa described in 2023