taxonID	type	description	language	source
03E987C6526ED402BA1CAA2D5720CEDB.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE SPECIES: Bairdemys hartsteini, new species.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526ED402BA1CAA2D5720CEDB.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION: Miocene of Puerto Rico and Venezuela.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526ED402BA1CAA2D5720CEDB.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: A Shweboemys Group Pelomedusoides (sensu Meylan, 1996) known from skull and shell; secondary palate shorter than in all Shweboemys Group except ‘‘ Shweboemys’ ’ gaffneyi; medial edges of palatal cleft curved as in ‘‘ Shweboemys’ ’ gaffneyi; ventral convexity on triturating surface larger than in all other Shweboemys Group; eustachian tube separated by bone from rest of fenestra postotica in contrast to all known Podocnemididae; antrum postoticum extremely small and slitlike in contrast to all other Shweboemys Group; frontal and prefrontal strongly convex on dorsal surface in contrast to all other Shweboemys Group; basisphenoid separated from palatines by medially meeting pterygoids as in ‘‘ Shweboemys’ ’ antiqua; basioccipital longer than in Shweboemys pilgrimi; jugal­pterygoid contact prevents palatine­parietal contact. INCLUDED SPECIES: Bairdemys venezuelensis (Wood and Díaz de Gamero, 1971), Bairdemys hartsteini, new species (see table 1 for comparisons).	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526ED402BA1CAA2D5720CEDB.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY: The genus name is in honor of Dr. Donald Baird, a student of fossil turtles and other reptiles, who spent most of his career at Princeton University, and was an TABLE 1 Comparison of Bairdemys species inspiring mentor of both authors. Don is active in many areas of vertebrate paleontology and fossil reptile research and has influenced many young people in paleontology. In 1964, when one of the authors, Gene Gaffney, was a senior at Rutgers University, Don was directly responsible for introducing Gene to fossil turtles. Roger Wood, the other author, as a Princeton undergraduate was also influenced by Don in entering paleontology.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526CD405BBD0A8C05435C8C3.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE SPECIMEN: AMNH 27222, a nearly complete skull (figs. 12 – 15). Collected by Eugene F. Hartstein, 1975. TYPE LOCALITY: North side of Highway No. 2, west of Bayamon, Puerto Rico. See MacPhee and Wyss (1990: 37) for a more detailed description of this site. TYPE HORIZON: Cibao Formation, middle Miocene. Nearby locality has manatee ribs, turtle shell, shark teeth, porpoise vertebrae (fide E. Hartstein, personal commun.). See MacPhee and Wyss (1990) for discussion of the Cibao Formation, its dating, and a general context of Puerto Rican Tertiary vertebrates.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526CD405BBD0A8C05435C8C3.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: A species of Bairdemys differing from the only other species, Bairdemys venezuelensis, by having a pinched rather TABLE 2 Measurements of the Skulls of Bairdemys (in mm) than straight snout, a premaxillary notch, a relatively narrower skull, a less pronounced depression on palatine surface of palate, and a relatively smaller skull (see tables 1, 2).	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526CD405BBD0A8C05435C8C3.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY: For Eugene F. Hartstein, who collected the specimen and donated it to the AMNH in 1991.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526BD404B998A9F857FFCB95.taxon	description	LOCALITY: Cerro La Cruz, NW area of Lara State, 4 km NW of Caserío La Mesa. See Sánchez­Villagra et al., 2000, for map. HORIZON: Castillo Formation, early Miocene.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C6526BD404B998A9F857FFCB95.taxon	discussion	DISCUSSION: This skull was figured and briefly described in Sánchez­Villagra et al. (2000) as ‘‘ genus indet., of ‘ Podocnemis’ venezuelensis Wood and Díaz de Gamero, 1971 ’’. The skull is clearly a Shweboemys Group podocnemidid based on its cavum pterygoideus and secondary palate. It has the palatal convexity diagnostic of Bairdemys. However, the skull differs from both species of Bairdemys in being flatter and lacking the degree of snout arching seen in Bairdemys. AMNH 30000 is not well preserved and these differences might be due to crushing, although there is no other indication of this. Unfortunately, sutures are not visible, and most of the bone surface is eroded. Comparison with the diagnostic criteria of the Bairdemys species (table 1) shows that it has the straight rather than pinched snout of B. venezuelensis, and the apparently narrow­ er skull and shallower palatal depressions of B. hartsteini. Its length is 92 mm, just intermediate between the 80 mm of B. hartsteini and the 105 – 120 mm of B. venezuelensis. AMNH 30000 could very well be a distinct species of Bairdemys, but its poor preservation makes it very difficult to be sure about the characters mentioned. For the present, we	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C65269D407B95AAA725148C8AB.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION: Late Eocene, Egypt. AVAILABLE MATERIAL: Cairo Geological Museum C. 10027 (holotype), Cairo Geological Museum C. 1003, BMNH R. 3190, BMNH R. 3189, BMNH R. 3191, Duke Primate Center No. 4120.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C65269D407B95AAA725148C8AB.taxon	description	LITERATURE: In addition to Andrews (1901), there is Andrews (1906), and von Reinach (1903: plate XI, fig. 2).	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
03E987C65269D406BB9AAA515472CB50.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION: Burma, Pliocene (possibly Pleistocene). AVAILABLE MATERIAL: Geological Survey of India No. 17255 (holotype figures in Swinton, 1939: figs. 1, 2; and Wood, 1970: plate 1), BMNH R. 8432 (figured in Wood, 1970: figs. 1, 2, 3, and plates IIA, IIIA, IVA). LITERATURE: In addition to Swinton (1939), Wood (1970) provided description and figures.	en	GAFFNEY, EUGENE S., TONG, HAIYAN, MEYLAN, PETER A. (2002): Bairdemys, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pelomedusoides: Podocnemididae) from the Miocene of the Caribbean. American Museum Novitates 3359: 1-28, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2002)379<0001:GANSNT>2.0.CO;2, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/0003-0082%282002%29379%3C0001%3AGANSNT%3E2.0.CO%3B2
