Abstract
The late Pliocene locality Camp dels Ninots is a fossil Lagerstätte that yielded an exceptionally well pre-served vertebrate fauna. Several turtles were reported from this locality and were all assigned to the living speciesMauremys leprosa.We describe here a second turtle taxon based on carapace material. This new taxon is identified asChelydropsiscf.pontica.It is the first report of a chelydrid turtle in the Pliocene of the Iberian peninsula. This discov-ery extends the range of the species to the southwest of Europe and thereby better documents the space and time distri-bution of snapping turtles before their supposedly rapid disappearance in Europe