Elseya uberrima is a Pliocene species of extinct Australian snapping turtle.

Taxonomy

During his time at the Queensland Museum, Charles Walter De Vis described a number of fossil turtles from the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. All four species described were declared a single diagnosable species by Thomson, 2000.

To avoid confusion, the synonymy for the species is:

  • Elseya uberrima (De Vis, 1897) Chelymys uberrima De Vis, 1897: 3 Chelymys antiqua De Vis 1897: 4 Chelymys arata De Vis 1897: 5 Pelocomastes ampla De Vis 1897: 6–7

This synonymy has made the generic name Pelocomastes a junior synonym of Elseya, and in their recent revision of that genus, Thomson et al. (2015) resurrected Pelocomastes as a subgenus to represent the Queensland clade of the Elseya. Therefore, Elseya (Pelocomastes) uberrima is the type species for this subgenus.

A) Lectotype of E. uberrima; B) Lectotype of E. arata; C-D) dorsal and ventral views of the lectotype of Pelocomastes ampla.
A) Lectotype of E. uberrima; B) lectotype of E. arata; C-D) dorsal and ventral views of the lectotype of P. ampla