Notoemys zapatocaensis, a New Side-Necked Turtle (Pleurodira: Platychelyidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia Author RUEDA, EDWIN ALBERTO CADENA Author GAFFNEY, EUGENE S. text American Museum Novitates 2005 2005-03-24 3470 1 1 20 http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2005)470%3C0001%3ANZANST%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0082(2005)470<0001:NZANST>2.0.CO;2 0003-0082 5382922 Notoemys zapatocaensis , new species TYPE SPECIMEN : IPN 15 ­ EAC 140120031 , a carapace and posterior part of plastron. TYPE LOCALITY : El Caucho farm (73 ° 15 ̍ W–6 ° 49 ̍ N), northeast of Ciudad de Zapatoca , Department of Santander , Colombia . HORIZON: Upper part of Rosablanca Fm ( Guzman, 1985 ), late Valanginian based on ammonoid Synoceras verrucosum (F. Etayo, personal commun.). DIAGNOSIS: A species of Notoemys (see table 1) that differs from N. laticentralis and N. oxfordiensis in having a first costal not contacting peripheral 3, peripheral 3 very small, and marginal scale 3 small and restricted entirely to peripheral 2, marginal 4 reaching peripheral 2; differs from N. laticentralis in having a slightly serrated rather than smooth posterior carapace edge, a notched pygal, narrower vertebral scales, and slight rather than no doming along posterior edge of pleural and vertebral scale areas.