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Meiolania Mackayi
''Meiolania'' ("small roamer") is an extinct genus of meiolaniid stem-turtle native to Australasia from the Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene and possibly Holocene. It is best known from fossils found on Lord Howe Island, though fossils are known from mainland Australia, New Caledonia, and possibly Vanuatu and Fiji. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1886 based on remains found on Lord Howe Island, which Richard Owen assigned to the two species ''M. platyceps'' and ''M. minor'' (now a synonym of the former). These were the first good meiolaniid remains, and were used to show that the first known remains of a related animal, a species from Queensland now known as '' Ninjemys oweni'' (which was assigned to ''Meiolania'' until 1992), did not belong to lizards as initially thought, but to turtles. Woodward sank ''Niolamia argentina'' into ''Meiolania'', but this was not accepted by later authors. The species of the genus may be summarized as In New Caledonia, ''M. macka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Museum Of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The museum occupies more than . AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually. The AMNH is a private 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission statement is: "To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiolania Mackayi
''Meiolania'' ("small roamer") is an extinct genus of meiolaniid stem-turtle native to Australasia from the Middle Miocene to Late Pleistocene and possibly Holocene. It is best known from fossils found on Lord Howe Island, though fossils are known from mainland Australia, New Caledonia, and possibly Vanuatu and Fiji. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1886 based on remains found on Lord Howe Island, which Richard Owen assigned to the two species ''M. platyceps'' and ''M. minor'' (now a synonym of the former). These were the first good meiolaniid remains, and were used to show that the first known remains of a related animal, a species from Queensland now known as '' Ninjemys oweni'' (which was assigned to ''Meiolania'' until 1992), did not belong to lizards as initially thought, but to turtles. Woodward sank ''Niolamia argentina'' into ''Meiolania'', but this was not accepted by later authors. The species of the genus may be summarized as In New Caledonia, ''M. macka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Australasian Journal Of Palaeontology
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Northern Australia
The unofficial geographic term Northern Australia includes those parts of Queensland and Western Australia north of latitude 26° and all of the Northern Territory. Those local government areas of Western Australia and Queensland that lie partially in the north are included. Although it comprises 45% of the total area of Australia, Northern Australia has only 5% of the Australian population (1.3 million in 2019). However, it includes several sources of Australian exports, being coal from the Great Dividing Range in Queensland/New South Wales and the natural gas and iron ore of the Pilbara region in WA. It also includes major natural tourist attractions, such as Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Great Barrier Reef and the Kakadu National Park. Geography and climate Almost all of Northern Australia is a huge ancient craton that has not experienced geological upheaval since the end of the Precambrian. The only exception to this generalisation is the Wet Tropics of northern Queensla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camfield Beds
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Miocene
The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern marine invertebrates than the Pliocene has. The Miocene is preceded by the Oligocene and is followed by the Pliocene. As Earth went from the Oligocene through the Miocene and into the Pliocene, the climate slowly cooled towards a series of ice ages. The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regionally defined boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch. During the Early Miocene, the Arabian Peninsula collided with Eurasia, severing the connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, and allowing a faunal interchange to occur between Eurasia and Africa, including the dispersal of proboscideans into Eurasia. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiga Island
Tiga Island, also called Tokanod, is a small island in the South Pacific Ocean. Tiga lies from Lifou Island, and from Maré Island in the Loyalty Islands. The Loyalty Islands are part of the greater archipelago of New Caledonia. Tiga is part of the commune (municipality) of Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands Province (''Province des îles Loyauté''), one of three provinces of the Territory of New Caledonia and Dependencies, an overseas territory of France. The island is long and wide, totaling about . The highest point is above sea level. The population of Tiga Island was 169 in 1996, for a density of about 17 person per km. The island has occasional commercial air service to its airfield, Tiga Airport Tiga is featured in the children's novel ''On the Run'' (1964), by British author Nina Bawden Nina Bawden CBE, FRSL, JP (19 January 1925 – 22 August 2012) was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Terre (New Caledonia)
Grande Terre is the largest and principal island of New Caledonia, which is a territory of France. History British explorer James Cook sighted Grande Terre in 1774 and named it "New Caledonia", Caledonia being the Latin name for what is now Scotland. The island's mountains reminded him of Scotland. Eventually, the name "New Caledonia" became applied to Grande Terre and its surrounding islands. It was annexed by the French Empire and became a penal colony in 1853. Today, Grande Terre has about 268,000 residents. Geography The largest settlement on Grande Terre is Nouméa, the capital city of New Caledonia. Locals refer to Grand Terre as "Le Caillou", the pebble. The island has a fairly hot and humid climate, though varying as the south-east trade winds bring relatively cool air. Surrounding the island and especially to the north-west is the New Caledonian barrier reef. The island is located roughly east of Australia. Grande Terre is oriented northwest-to-southeast; its area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pindai Caves
The Pindai Caves of New Caledonia are an archaeological and palaeontological site important for the study of prehistoric human settlement as well as of the Holocene fauna of the island. The Pindai area has been occupied by humans for varying periods over the last 2,800 years. Description The site comprises six caves, in coral limestone upraised about , at the seaward tip of the Népoui Peninsula on the north-west coast of Grande Terre, about north-west of Noumea. Two of the caves have easy walk-in access; they contain the richest cultural material and the fewest fossils. The other four caves are sinkholes capable of trapping animals, especially ground-dwelling and flightless birds, and contain the most fossils. All the caves broaden from their entrances into large underground chambers. Numerous subfossils of extinct fauna have been found in the caves, including the endemic terrestrial crocodile ''Mekosuchus'', the giant horned turtle ''Meiolania'', and numerous bird taxa, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Records Of The Australian Museum
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Walpole Island (New Caledonia)
Walpole Island (French: ''Île de Walpole'') is a small and uninhabited French island, east of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. Although it is geographically part of the Loyalty Islands, administratively it belongs to L'Île-des-Pins municipality of New Caledonia. History There is evidence that the island had prehistoric inhabitants. Graves, shell and bone tools, as well as stone markers indicate the presence of a permanent population at some point. The island is the topic of several oral traditions from Maré and the Île des Pines, the two closest inhabited islands. Speculation amongst the overseers of the Guano mining operation suggested that shipwreck or other castaways had also occupied the island. British captain Butler is credited for discovery of the island in 1794 and he named it after his ship . From 1910 through 1936 guano was mined on the island and about 150,000 tonnes were exported to New Zealand. The island is only visited by scientific naturalist resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niolamia Argentina
''Niolamia'' is an extinct genus of South American Meiolaniidae, meiolaniid turtle. Arthur Smith Woodward classified it as being in the genus ''Meiolania'', which this genus name is an anagram of, but this was not accepted by later authors. The genus is known from the Sarmiento Formation in Argentina.''Niolamia'' at Fossilworks.org ''Crossochelys'' was found to be a synonym in a review of South American Turtles. 
References Further reading * Turtles, Tortoises and Terrapins: Survivors in Armor by Ronald Orenstein (Pg. 43) * Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Verteb ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
