Eurysternum
Eurysternum is an extinct genus of sea turtle. Its type species is Eurysternum wagleri,[1] the holotype of which has since been lost and only survives in illustrations.[2]
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Testudines |
Suborder: | Cryptodira |
Family: | †Eurysternidae |
Genus: | †Eurysternum Meyer, 1839 |
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Misassigned species
Eurysternum ignoratum Bram, 1965 is a junior synonym of Thalassemys hughii.[3] 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.[4]
References
- 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" (PDF). PaleoBios. 23 (3): 1–8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-01.
- 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.
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