Named By: | M. S. de la Fuente & M. IturraldeinVinent in 2001 |
Time Period: | Oxfordian |
Location: | Cuba - Jagua Formation |
Size: | Shell roughly estimated to be about 28 centimetres long |
Diet: | Uncertain |
Fossil(s): | Partial remains including the shell |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Anapsida | Testudines | Pleurodira | |
Also known as: | | Notoemys oxfordiensis | |
Caribemys is an extinct genus of turtle which existed in the Jurassic period. Its fossils have been found in the Jagua Formation in western Cuba. The type species of Caribemys is C. oxfordiensis.