Biology:Neusticemys

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Short description: Extinct genus of turtles

Neusticemys
Temporal range: Tithonian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Pantestudines
Clade: Testudinata
Clade: Thalassochelydia
Family: Thalassemydidae
Genus: Neusticemys
Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1993
Type species
Eurysternum neuquinum
Fernandez and de la Fuente, 1988

Neusticemys is an extinct genus of thalassochelydian sea turtle. Its type species is Eurysternum neuquinum. It is known from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) aged Vaca Muerta of Patagonia, Argentina

Neusticemys was originally described as a new species of Eurysternum, but was later assigned to its own genus in 1993.[1][2]

References

  1. Fernández, M.S. y de la Fuente, M.S. 1988. Nueva tortuga (Cryptodira: Thalassemydidae) de la Formación Vaca Muerta (Jurásico, Tithoniano) de la Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina. Ameghiniana 25: 129-138.
  2. 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.

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