title: Bairdemys
text: # Bairdemys
  
  Bairdemys is an extinct genus of side-necked turtles in the family Podocnemididae. The genus existed from the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene and its fossils have been found in South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Panama and Venezuela. The genus was described in 2002 by Gaffney & Wood and the type species is B. hartsteini.
  
  ## Description
  
  The first species in the genus described was B. venezuelensis as Podocnemis venezuelensis by Wood and Díaz de Gamero in 1971.
  
  ### Species
  
  * †B. hartsteini Gaffney & Wood 2002
  * †B. healeyorum Weems & Knight 2013
  * †B. sanchezi Gaffney et al. 2008
  * †B. thalassica Ferreira et al. 2015
  * †B. venezuelensis Wood & Díaz 1971
  * †B. winklerae Gaffney et al. 2008
  
  ## Phylogeny
  
  Bairdemys was placed phylogenetically by Ferreira et al. in 2015.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Fossils of Bairdemys have been found in:
  
  ### Late Oligocene
  
  * Chandler Bridge Formation, Arikareean, South Carolina
  
  ### Early-Mid Miocene
  
  * Cibao Formation, Hemingfordian, Puerto Rico
  * El Miedo Cave, Capadare and Castillo Formations, Laventan, Venezuela
  
  ### Late Miocene
  
  * Alajuela Formation, earliest Clarendonian, Panama
  * Urumaco Formation, Chasicoan, Venezuela
  