Carbonemys

Carbonemys Temporal range: Early Paleocene, 60 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Life restoration of Carbonemys
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Testudines
Suborder:	Pleurodira
Family:	Podocnemididae
Genus:	†Carbonemys Cadena et al., 2012
Type species
†Carbonemys cofrinii Cadena et al., 2012

Carbonemys cofrinii is an extinct podocnemidid turtle known from the early Paleocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia, 60 million years ago, about five million years after the KT extinction event.

In 2005, the holotype specimen was discovered in a Colombian coal mine by a North Carolina State doctoral student named Edwin Cadena. It had a shell that measured about 1.72 metres (5 ft 8 in), making it one of the world's largest turtles.

Carbonemys' jaws were massive and would be powerful enough to eat a crocodile. This turtle coexisted with the giant boid, Titanoboa.