Neusticemys
Neusticemys Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Family: | †Thalassemydidae |
Genus: | †Neusticemys Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1993 |
Type species | |
Eurysternum neuquina Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988
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Neusticemys is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian sea turtle. Its type species is Neusticemys neuquina. It is known from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) aged Vaca Muerta of Patagonia, Argentina
Neusticemys was originally described as a new species of Eurysternum, but was later assigned to its own genus in 1993.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Fernández, M.S. y de la Fuente, M.S. 1988. Nueva tortuga (Cryptodira: Thalassemydidae) de la Formación Vaca Muerta (Jurásico, Tithoniano) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina. Ameghiniana 25: 129-138.
- ^ M. S. Fernandez and M. S. de la Fuente. 1993. Las tortugas casiquélidias de las calizas litográficas titonianas del área Los Catutos Argentina. Ameghiniana 30(3):283-295.
Categories:
- Thalassochelydia
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Tithonian genera
- Late Jurassic turtles
- Late Jurassic reptiles of South America
- Jurassic Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Neuquén Basin
- Fossil taxa described in 1993
- Prehistoric turtle stubs