Biology:Eurysternum
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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles
| Eurysternum | |
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| Fossil in Bürgermeister Müller Museum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Pantestudines |
| Clade: | Testudinata |
| Clade: | †Thalassochelydia |
| Family: | †Eurysternidae |
| Genus: | †Eurysternum Meyer, 1839 |
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Eurysternum is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian turtle.[1] Its type species is Eurysternum wagleri,[2] the holotype of which has since been lost and only survives in illustrations.[3]
Formerly assigned species
Eurysternum ignoratum Bram, 1965 is a junior synonym of Thalassemys hughii.[4] The Late Jurassic species Eurysternum neuquinum Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988, described from marine deposits in Argentina, is now placed in its own genus Neusticemys.[5]
References
- ↑ Anquetin, J.; Püntener, C.; Joyce, W. G. (2017). "A Review of the Fossil Record of Turtles of the Clade Thalassochelydia". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58 (2): 317–369. doi:10.3374/014.058.0205. https://doc.rero.ch/record/305668/files/joy_rfr.pdf.
- ↑ Karl Cäsar von Leonhard (1861). Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde. E. Schweizerbart. p. 473.
- ↑ Walter G. Joyce (2003). "A new Late Jurassic turtle specimen and the taxonomy of Palaeomedusa testa and Eurysternum wagleri". PaleoBios 23 (3): 1–8. http://www.geo.uni-tuebingen.de/fileadmin/website/arbeitsbereich/palaeo/biogeologie/Images/Joyce_Publications/3__Joyce_2003.pdf.
- ↑ J. Anquetin, C. Puntener, and J.-P. Billon-Bruyat. 2014. A taxonomic review of the Late Jurassic eucryptodiran turtles from the Jura Mountains (Switzerland and France). PeerJ 2:e369
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q5414128 entry
