Owadowia
Owadowia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Clade: | Pantestudines |
Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
Genus: | †Owadowia Szczygielski et al., 2017 |
Species: | †O. borsukbialynickae
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Binomial name | |
†Owadowia borsukbialynickae Szczygielski et al., 2017
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Owadowia is a genus of extinct thalassochelydian turtle from the Late Jurassic of Poland. The type and only species is Owadowia borsukbialynickae, named by Szczygielski and colleagues in 2017 for a partial lower jaw, coracoid, ilium and femur from the early Tithonian . The limited material means that it is difficult to compare Owadowia to its relatives, and it may not be a unique taxon. The genus lacks the features diagnostic to its parent clade Thalassochelydia, has similarities to Solnhofia and as well as being a Late Jurassic marine turtle like the remainder of the group.[1]
References[]
- ^ Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W.G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia" (PDF). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. S2CID 31091127.
Categories:
- Thalassochelydia
- Prehistoric turtle genera
- Tithonian genera
- Late Jurassic turtles
- Late Jurassic reptiles of Europe
- Fossils of Poland
- Fossil taxa described in 2017
- Prehistoric turtle stubs