Ninjemys oweni Woodward, 1881
Phylum: Chordata Haeckel, 1874
Subphylum: Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812
Classe: Sauropsida Huxley, 1864
Ordine: Testudines Batsch, 1788
Famiglia: Meiolaniidae Lydekker, 1887
Genere: Ninjemys Gaffney, 1992
Descrizione
Originariamente attribuita al genere Meiolania, ma inseguito per differenze anatomiche assunta a genere a se. La differenza rispetto alle specie Meiolania sta nel cranio più largo e piatto. Raggiungevano dimensioni dell'ordine dei due metri e oltre di lunghezza.
Diffusione
Pleistocene, Queensland.
Sinonimi
= Meiolania oweni.
Bibliografia
–Woodward, A. S. (1888). "Notes on the Extinct Reptilian Genera Megalania, Owen, and Meiolania, Owen" (PDF). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6. 1 (2): 85-89.
–Molnar, Ralph E. (2004). Dragons in the dust: the paleobiology of the giant monitor lizard Megalania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
–Gaffney, E. S. (1992). "Ninjemys, a new name for "Meiolania" oweni (Woodward), a Horned Turtle from the Pleistocene of Queensland" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3049): 1-10.
–Gaffney, E.S. (1996). "The postcranial morphology of Meiolania platyceps and a review of the Meiolaniidae". Bulletin of the AMNH (229).
–Brown, L.E.; Moll, D. (2019). "The enigmatic palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the giant, horned, fossil turtles of Australasia: a review and reanalysis of the data". Herpetological Journal. 29 (4): 252-263.
–Gaffney, Eugene S.; Archer, Michael; White, Arthur (1992). "Warkalania, a New Meiolaniid Turtle from the Tertiary Riversleigh Deposits of Queensland, Australia" (PDF). The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 9 (1): 35-48.
–Poropat, S. F.; Kool, L.; Vickers-Rich, P.; Rich, T. H. (2016). "Oldest meiolaniid turtle remains from Australia: evidence from the Eocene Kerosene Creek Member of the Rundle Formation, Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (2): 231-239.
–Gaffney, E.S. (1985). "The Cervical and Caudal Vertebrae of the Cryptodiran Turtle, Melolania platyceps, from the Pleistocene of Lord Howe Island, Australia". American Museum Novitates (2805).
–Rhodin, Anders G. J.; Thomson, Scott; Georgalis, Georgios L.; Karl, Hans Volker; Danilov, Igor G.; Takahashi, Akio; de la Fuente, Marcelo SaulIcon ; Bourque, Jason; Delfino, Massimo; Bour, Roger; Iverson, John B.; Shaffer, Bradley H.; van Dijk, Peter Paul (2015). "Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians" (PDF). Chelonian Research Monographs. 5: 23.
–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.
–Gaffney, E.S.; McNamara, G. (1990). "A meiolaniid turtle from the Pleistocene of Northern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 28 (107-113).
–Ross D.E. MacPhee, Hans-Dieter Sues (1999). Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts, and consequences. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. p. 251.
–Sterli, J.; de la Fuente, M.S.; Krause, J.M. (2015). "A new turtle from the Palaeogene of Patagonia (Argentina) sheds new light on the diversity and evolution of the bizarre clade of horned turtles (Meiolaniidae, Testudinata)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174 (3): 519-548.
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Data: 04/09/1997
Emissione: Fauna preistorica australiana Stato: Macedonia Nota: Emesso in una striscia |
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