Niolamia

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Niolamia
Temporal range: ?Cretaceous or Eocene
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Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Order:
Testudines
Suborder:
Cryptodira
Family:
†Meiolaniidae
Genus:
†Niolamia

Ameghino, 1899
species
  • †N. argentina

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Niolamia is an extinct genus of South American meiolaniid turtle.[1] Arthur Smith Woodward sunk it into Meiolania, but this was not accepted by later authors.[2]

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Restoration by Heinrich Harder

References

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  • Turtles, Tortoises and Terrapins: Survivors in Armor by Ronald Orenstein (Pg. 43)
  • Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent (Life of the Past) by Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas Hewitt Rich, Francesco Coffa, and Steven Morton

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