''Bauruemys'' is an extinct genus of turtles in the family

Podocnemididae Podocnemididae is a family of pleurodire (side-necked) turtles, once widely distributed. Most of its 20 genera and 30 species are now extinct. Seven of its eight surviving species are native to South America: the genus '' Peltocephalus'', with on ...

. A study on the skulls of the Late Cretaceous stem-podocnemidid ''Bauruemys elegans'' from the

Presidente Prudente Formation The Presidente Prudente Formation is a geological formation of the Bauru Group in the Paraná Basin, located in Brazil whose strata date back to the Late Campanian to Early Maastrichtian. Since at least 1953, parts of this formation, such as t ...

in Brazil is published by Mariani & Romano (

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), who interpret all specimens as belonging to the same species and likely to the same population, assess the ontogenetic changes in the skull of ''B. elegans'' and tentatively assess the changes of eating preference habits over ontogeny in the species.Thiago F. Mariani; Pedro S.R. Romano (2017). "Intra-specific variation and allometry of the skull of Late Cretaceous side-necked turtle Bauruemys elegans (Pleurodira, Podocnemididae) and how to deal with morphometric data in fossil vertebrates". PeerJ. 5: e2890, ,

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* Podocnemididae Prehistoric turtle genera Late Cretaceous reptiles of South America Campanian life Cretaceous Brazil Fossils of Brazil Fossil taxa described in 1969 Extinct turtles {{Cretaceous-reptile-stub