Foxemys

{{Short description|Extinct genus of turtles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = Late Cretaceous, {{fossilrange|84.9|66.043}}

|image = Foxemys mechinorum.JPG

|image_caption = Fossil of F. mechinorum, an extinct turtle

|display_parents = 4

|taxon = Foxemys

|authority = Tong et al., 1998

|type_species = Foxemys mechinorum

|type_species_authority = Tong et al., 1998

|subdivision_ranks = Other species

|subdivision =

• {{extinct}}F. trabanti Rabi et al. 2012

}}

Foxemys is an extinct genus of bothremydid turtle that was discovered at Fox Amphoux, France{{cite web|title=Paleobiology Database: Foxemys|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=98658|access-date=19 January 2012}}

and also Hungary and Spain.A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega. 2018. Identification of the French Upper Cretaceous bothremydid turtle Foxemys mechinorum in the Spanish record. Geobios 51(3):211-217 Its skull and shell structure is similar to Polysternon.{{cite journal|last=Tong|first=Haiyan|author2=Eugene S Gaffney |author3=Eric Buffetaut |title=Foxemys, a new side-necked turtle (Bothremydidae, Pelomedusoides) from the late Cretaceous of France.|journal=American Museum Novitates|year=1998|issue=3251|pages=1–19|hdl=2246/3157 |url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/3157|access-date=19 January 2012}} Two species are in the genus: F. mechinorum and F. trabanti.{{cite journal |author1=Rabi, Marton |author2=Tong, Haiyan |author3=Botfalvai, Gabor|title=A new species of the side-necked turtle Foxemys (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary and the historical biogeography of the Bothremydini |journal=Geological Magazine |date=2012 |volume=149 |issue=4 |pages=662–674 |doi=10.1017/S0016756811000756|bibcode=2012GeoM..149..662R |s2cid=128635040 |quote=...the migration could only happen after the Bothremydina physiologically adapted to a marine habitat and their osmoregulatory systems were developed enough to constantly live in saltwater. This adaptation already appeared by the Santonian as both Bothremys arabicus and Chedighaii or Bothremys barberi probably had a near-shore marine lifestyle}}