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 known from a single species, 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. The type locality is unknown.
Appalachemys is over 80 cm long.
Distribution and habitat Appalachemys lived in Alabama in the Cretaceous. References