Biology:Anosteira
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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles
| Anosteira | |
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| A. maomingensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | Carettochelyidae |
| Subfamily: | †Anosteirinae |
| Genus: | †Anosteira Leidy, 1871 |
Anosteira is an extinct genus of carettochelyid turtle from the Eocene to the Oligocene of Asia and North America.
Taxonomy
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- Anosteira manchuriana Zangerl, 1947 Liaoning, China, late Eocene
- Anosteira maomingensis Chow and Liu, 1955 Youkanwo Formation, Guangdong, China, Late Eocene
- Anosteira mongoliensis Gilmore, 1931 Inner Mongolia, China, Late Eocene-Oligocene
- Anosteira ornata Leidy, 1871 Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA, Early Eocene
- Anosteira pulchra (Clark, 1932) Uinta Formation, Utah, USA, Middle Eocene (Lutetian)
References
- ↑ Joyce, Walter G. (April 2014). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Pan-Carettochelys" (in en). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55 (1): 3–33. doi:10.3374/014.055.0102. ISSN 0079-032X. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3374/014.055.0102.
Sources
- The Osteology of the Reptiles by Alfred Sherwood Romer
- Chinese Fossil Vertebrates by Spencer G. Lucas
- The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton, Mikhail A. Shishkin, David M. Unwin, and Evgenii N. Kurochkin. p. 344.
External links
- Anosteira in the Paleobiology Database
Wikidata ☰ Q4770189 entry
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