Niolamia
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Family: | †Meiolaniidae |
Genus: | †Niolamia Ameghino, 1899 |
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Niolamia is an extinct genus of South American meiolaniid turtle.[3] Arthur Smith Woodward classified it as being in the genus Meiolania, but this was not accepted by later authors.[4] The genus is known from the in Argentina.[5] Crossochelys was found to be a synonym in a review of South American Turtles.
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Restoration by Heinrich Harder
References[]
- ^ de la Fuente, M. S.; Sterli, J.; Maniel, I (2014). "Introduction". Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles. Springer Earth System Sciences. pp. 1–5. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00518-8_1. ISBN 978-3-319-00517-1.
- ^ Sterli, J. (2015). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Gondwanan Turtles of the clade Meiolaniformes". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (1): 21–45. doi:10.3374/014.056.0102. S2CID 83799914.
- ^ Sterli, Juliana; de la Fuente, Marcelo (2011). "Re-Description and Evolutionary Remarks on the Patagonian Horned Turtle Niolamia argentina Ameghino, 1899 (Testudinata, Meiolaniidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (6): 1210–1229. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.615685. S2CID 83503956.
- ^ Anderson, C. (1925). "Notes on the extinct Chelonian Meiolania, with a record of a new occurrence". Records of the Australian Museum. 14 (4): 223–242. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.14.1925.844.
- ^ Niolamia at Fossilworks.org
Further reading[]
- Turtles, Tortoises and Terrapins: Survivors in Armor by Ronald Orenstein (Pg. 43)
- Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton
Categories:
- Meiolaniformes
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Eocene turtles
- Prehistoric turtles of South America
- Eocene reptiles of South America
- Divisaderan
- Mustersan
- Casamayoran
- Bartonian life
- Lutetian life
- Paleogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Fossil taxa described in 1899
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
- Prehistoric turtle stubs