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